[PATCH 02/55] arm64: Add PTE_HYP_XN page table flag

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Fri Jul 22 10:28:19 PDT 2016


EL2 page tables can be configured to deny code from being
executed, which is done by setting bit 54 in the page descriptor.

It is the same bit as PTE_UXN, but the "USER" reference felt odd
in the hypervisor code.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
index 2813748..c3ae239 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@
 #define PTE_CONT		(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 52)	/* Contiguous range */
 #define PTE_PXN			(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 53)	/* Privileged XN */
 #define PTE_UXN			(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 54)	/* User XN */
+#define PTE_HYP_XN		(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 54)	/* HYP XN */
 
 /*
  * AttrIndx[2:0] encoding (mapping attributes defined in the MAIR* registers).
-- 
2.8.1




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