From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
arjan@linux.intel.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:x86/mm] x86: make sure initmem is writable on 64-bit
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:24:40 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-e087edd8c056292191bb989baf49f83ee509e624@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236078904.2675.17.camel@penberg-laptop>
Commit-ID: e087edd8c056292191bb989baf49f83ee509e624
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/e087edd8c056292191bb989baf49f83ee509e624
Author: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
AuthorDate: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:15:04 +0200
Commit: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:21:18 +0100
x86: make sure initmem is writable on 64-bit
Impact: unification
This patch ports commit 3c1df68b848b39270752ff8d4b956cc4a4dce0f6 ("x86: make
sure initmem is writable") to the 64-bit version to unify implementations of
free_init_pages().
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236078904.2675.17.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index e6d36b4..03da903 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -962,6 +962,13 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
begin, PAGE_ALIGN(end));
set_memory_np(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
#else
+ /*
+ * We just marked the kernel text read only above, now that
+ * we are going to free part of that, we need to make that
+ * writeable first.
+ */
+ set_memory_rw(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+
printk(KERN_INFO "Freeing %s: %luk freed\n", what, (end - begin) >> 10);
for (; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
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