From af96e4438a4b34a257f5318a296e0b9e182e7ab9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:49:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86: CPA no alias checking for _NX NX settings are not required to be consistent across alias mappings. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index 7b4a17236972..b8f53233151d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsigned long addr, int numpages, pgprot_t mask_set, pgprot_t mask_clr) { struct cpa_data cpa; - int ret, cache; + int ret, cache, checkalias; /* * Check, if we are requested to change a not supported @@ -695,7 +695,10 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsigned long addr, int numpages, cpa.mask_clr = mask_clr; cpa.flushtlb = 0; - ret = __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, 1); + /* No alias checking for _NX bit modifications */ + checkalias = (pgprot_val(mask_set) | pgprot_val(mask_clr)) != _PAGE_NX; + + ret = __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, checkalias); /* * Check whether we really changed something: -- 2.20.1