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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:00:00 +0800
From: "huang ying" <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: ioremap_xxx() with EXEC enabled
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Jan 30, 2008 5:59 PM, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:32, Huang, Ying wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On i386, EFI may need to map EFI runtime code area as EXEC enabled with
> > ioremap(). But, I found that the memory are mapped as EXEC disabled when
> > mapped with ioremap() now. I think we may need a method to map memory
> > area as EXEC enabled with ioremap_xxx(). Some possible interface schemes
> > for mapping as EXEC enabled are as follow:
>
> Does __ioremap(..., PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC) not work?

The the last parameter of the current implementation of __ioremap() in
x86 git is  enum ioremap_mode (IOR_MODE_UNCACHED and IOR_MODE_CACHED),
not the flags like before. So this does not work.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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