From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Problem with module_init?
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:26:02 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1238646362.17330.186.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090402000803.087600da@lappy.seanm.ca>
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 00:08 -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:24:43 +1100
> "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > I suspect I just screwed up the definition of PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC or
> > something like that.
>
> Yup, that is exactly what you did ;) You left out _PAGE_HWEXEC. The
> following patch fixes the problem for me.
The proper fix is for PAGE_KERNEL_X to have _PAGE_HWEXEC. I'll fix that.
Cheers,
Ben.
> Cheers,
> Sean
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
> index d9740e8..a84f248 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
> @@ -167,7 +167,8 @@ extern unsigned long bad_call_to_PMD_PAGE_SIZE(void);
> #endif
>
> /* Make modules code happy. We don't set RO yet */
> -#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC PAGE_KERNEL_X
> +// #define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC PAGE_KERNEL_X
> +#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC __pgprot(_PAGE_BASE | _PAGE_KERNEL_RW | _PAGE_EXEC | _PAGE_HWEXEC)
>
> /* Advertise special mapping type for AGP */
> #define PAGE_AGP (PAGE_KERNEL_NC)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-02 4:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-31 18:37 Problem with module_init? Sean MacLennan
2009-04-01 3:11 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-04-01 11:27 ` Josh Boyer
2009-04-01 14:52 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-04-01 22:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-04-02 4:08 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-04-02 4:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-04-02 4:39 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-04-02 4:51 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-04-02 4:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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