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From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86: fix some bugs about EFI runtime code mapping
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:30:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201253437.15972.60.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080125091923.GE23708@elte.hu>

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 10:19 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> 
> >>  +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_X86_PAE)
> >> +static void __init runtime_code_page_mkexec(void)
> >> +{
> >> +	efi_memory_desc_t *md;
> >> +	unsigned long end;
> >> +	void *p;
> >> +
> >> +	if (!(__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX))
> >> +		return;
> >>   
> >
> > On 32-bit non-PAE, _PAGE_NX == 0, so this if() statement should be 
> > sufficient to disable the whole function at compile time without 
> > needing the outer #if defined wrapper.
> 
> good point. The patch fixes bugs and the consolidation it does is very 
> nice so i've applied it already, but we could indeed further consolidate 
> it and make it a nice #ifdef-less function. Could one of you send an 
> add-on patch for this?

I will do it. But I have some other thing to do now, so I will send it
on next Monday.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-25  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-25  5:55 [PATCH 4/6] x86: fix some bugs about EFI runtime code mapping Huang, Ying
2008-01-25  7:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25  9:19   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-25  9:30     ` Huang, Ying [this message]
2008-01-25  9:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-25  9:26   ` Huang, Ying
2008-01-25  9:48     ` Ingo Molnar

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