Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935050Ab0KQRQj (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:16:39 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:36233 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935027Ab0KQRQi (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:16:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:16:13 +0000 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Catalin Marinas Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/20] ARM: LPAE: Introduce L_PTE_NOEXEC and L_PTE_NOWRITE Message-ID: <20101117171613.GB5308@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1289584840-18097-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <1289584840-18097-6-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <20101115183014.GD31421@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1249 Lines: 26 On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:02:37PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On 15 November 2010 18:30, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:00:25PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > >> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h > >> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h > >> @@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ > >> ?#define L_PTE_USER ? ? ? ? ? (1 << 8) > >> ?#define L_PTE_EXEC ? ? ? ? ? (1 << 9) > >> ?#define L_PTE_SHARED ? ? ? ? (1 << 10) ? ? ? /* shared(v6), coherent(xsc3) */ > >> +#define L_PTE_NOEXEC ? ? ? ? (0) > >> +#define L_PTE_NOWRITE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(0) > > > > Let's not make this more complicated than it has to be. ?If we need the > > inverse of WRITE and EXEC, then that's what we should change everyone to, > > not invent a new system to work along side the old system. > > Question on the pgprot_noncached/writecombine/dmacoherent - in the > current implementation we pass L_PTE_EXEC on the dmacoherent macro. Erm. Please look at the code again. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/