[PATCHv2 1/2] arm64: Get existing page protections in split_pmd

Laura Abbott labbott at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 10 17:57:36 PST 2015


Rather than always putting the least restrictived permissions
(PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC) when spliting a pmd into pages, use
the existing permissions from the pmd for the page.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott at fedoraproject.org>
---
v2: Typo and typechecking fixed

I chose not to add the Reviewed-by from Ard here because of the addition of
the contiguous bit in split_pmd. Not sure if I should be explicitly carrying
it over.
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index c2fa6b5..496c3fd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -76,15 +76,13 @@ static void __init *early_alloc(unsigned long sz)
 static void split_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, pte_t *pte)
 {
 	unsigned long pfn = pmd_pfn(*pmd);
+	unsigned long addr = pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
+	pgprot_t prot = __pgprot((pmd_val(*pmd) ^ addr) | PTE_TYPE_PAGE);
+
 	int i = 0;
 
 	do {
-		/*
-		 * Need to have the least restrictive permissions available
-		 * permissions will be fixed up later. Default the new page
-		 * range as contiguous ptes.
-		 */
-		set_pte(pte, pfn_pte(pfn, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT));
+		set_pte(pte, pfn_pte(pfn, prot));
 		pfn++;
 	} while (pte++, i++, i < PTRS_PER_PTE);
 }
-- 
2.5.0




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