[PATCH 5/7] arm64: Default kernel pages should be contiguous

Jeremy Linton jeremy.linton at arm.com
Wed Sep 16 12:03:04 PDT 2015


The default page attributes for a PMD being broken should have the CONT bit
set. Create a new definition for an early boot range of PTE's that are
contiguous.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index d43e1d1..252499e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ extern void __pgd_error(const char *file, int line, unsigned long val);
 
 #define PAGE_KERNEL		__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_DIRTY | PTE_WRITE)
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC	__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_UXN | PTE_DIRTY | PTE_WRITE)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT	__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_UXN | PTE_DIRTY | \
+					 PTE_WRITE | PTE_CONT)
 
 #define PAGE_HYP		__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_HYP)
 #define PAGE_HYP_DEVICE		__pgprot(PROT_DEVICE_nGnRE | PTE_HYP)
-- 
2.4.3





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