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x86: CPA no alias checking for _NX

NX settings are not required to be consistent across alias mappings.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thomas Gleixner 17 years ago
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1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 5 2
      arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c

+ 5 - 2
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c

@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsigned long addr, int numpages,
 				    pgprot_t mask_set, pgprot_t mask_clr)
 {
 	struct cpa_data cpa;
-	int ret, cache;
+	int ret, cache, checkalias;
 
 	/*
 	 * Check, if we are requested to change a not supported
@@ -695,7 +695,10 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsigned long addr, int numpages,
 	cpa.mask_clr = mask_clr;
 	cpa.flushtlb = 0;
 
-	ret = __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, 1);
+	/* No alias checking for _NX bit modifications */
+	checkalias = (pgprot_val(mask_set) | pgprot_val(mask_clr)) != _PAGE_NX;
+
+	ret = __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, checkalias);
 
 	/*
 	 * Check whether we really changed something: