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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2010-03-15 14:27:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2010-03-15 14:27:06 +0000 |
| commit | 2d3b5fa3a39d16c880bda3cf2bd9dd6ed5a01f74 (patch) | |
| tree | e20283fe2ed46aa35c8ca5fc1724ba067cd2e2f8 /arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | |
| parent | 3f17522ce461a31e7ced6311b28fcf5b8a763316 (diff) | |
| parent | 7278a22143b003e9af7b9ca1b5f1c40ae4b55d98 (diff) | |
Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/genesis-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index 1d4eb93d333..cf07c26d9a4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -291,8 +291,29 @@ static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long address, */ if (kernel_set_to_readonly && within(address, (unsigned long)_text, - (unsigned long)__end_rodata_hpage_align)) - pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_RW; + (unsigned long)__end_rodata_hpage_align)) { + unsigned int level; + + /* + * Don't enforce the !RW mapping for the kernel text mapping, + * if the current mapping is already using small page mapping. + * No need to work hard to preserve large page mappings in this + * case. + * + * This also fixes the Linux Xen paravirt guest boot failure + * (because of unexpected read-only mappings for kernel identity + * mappings). In this paravirt guest case, the kernel text + * mapping and the kernel identity mapping share the same + * page-table pages. Thus we can't really use different + * protections for the kernel text and identity mappings. Also, + * these shared mappings are made of small page mappings. + * Thus this don't enforce !RW mapping for small page kernel + * text mapping logic will help Linux Xen parvirt guest boot + * aswell. + */ + if (lookup_address(address, &level) && (level != PG_LEVEL_4K)) + pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_RW; + } #endif prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) & ~pgprot_val(forbidden)); |