Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758522Ab0KQRWR (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:22:17 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:48732 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754518Ab0KQRWQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:22:16 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=vuwd/wP5RsQnCfgLAJ6eQyWVR1uxvTIqwbFuwNS/gFgwzqOKDt6fyBQomQWcLUZs7L f/OJhJce12tIUwonpf6pWrswlFglBYtm+WngWjLCryXLVSV8LPmf1SBnW2s2UMemWyUC EvZvLSVD84GS6eaEACwZf+IPZM/PW0UHD365U= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <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> <20101117171613.GB5308@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:22:12 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mQj3aWYyTVy1p5LnVbatLdHV1XA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/20] ARM: LPAE: Introduce L_PTE_NOEXEC and L_PTE_NOWRITE From: Catalin Marinas To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1573 Lines: 37 On 17 November 2010 17:16, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > 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. Ah, good point, that was the mask. So for dmacoherent we make sure that L_PTE_EXEC is cleared. I suspect we should now make sure that L_PTE_NOEXEC is set. For the other two, just leave them as they are. -- Catalin -- 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/