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* [PATCH RESEND] xen: mask _PAGE_PCD from ptes
@ 2007-11-15 21:49 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2007-11-15 21:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List, Andrew Morton

_PAGE_PCD maps a page with caching disabled, which is typically used
for mapping harware registers.  Xen never allows it to be set on a
mapping, and unprivileged guests never need it since they can't see
the real underlying hardware.  However, some uncached mappings are
made early when probing the (non-existent) APIC, and its OK to mask
off the PCD flag in these cases.

This became necessary because Xen started checking for this bit, rather
than silently masking it off.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ pte_t xen_make_pte(unsigned long long pt
 	if (pte & 1)
 		pte = phys_to_machine(XPADDR(pte)).maddr;
 
+	pte &= ~_PAGE_PCD;
+
 	return (pte_t){ pte, pte >> 32 };
 }
 
@@ -290,6 +292,8 @@ pte_t xen_make_pte(unsigned long pte)
 {
 	if (pte & _PAGE_PRESENT)
 		pte = phys_to_machine(XPADDR(pte)).maddr;
+
+	pte &= ~_PAGE_PCD;
 
 	return (pte_t){ pte };
 }



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