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
next prev parent 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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