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Author SHA1 Message Date
Paul Mackerras
11b55da700 powerpc: Fix oops when loading modules
This fixes a problem reported by Sean MacLennan where loading any
module would cause an oops.  We weren't marking the pages containing
the module text as having hardware execute permission, due to a bug
introduced in commit 8d1cf34e ("powerpc/mm: Tweak PTE bit combination
definitions"), hence trying to execute the module text caused an
exception on processors that support hardware execute permission.

This adds _PAGE_HWEXEC to the definitions of PAGE_KERNEL_X and
PAGE_KERNEL_ROX to fix this problem.

Reported-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-04-07 15:19:01 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
71087002cf powerpc/mm: Merge various PTE bits and accessors definitions
Now that they are almost identical, we can merge some of the definitions
related to the PTE format into common files.

This creates a new pte-common.h which is included by both 32 and 64-bit
right after the CPU specific pte-*.h file, and which defines some
bits to "default" values if they haven't been defined already, and
then provides a generic definition of most of the bit combinations
based on these and exposed to the rest of the kernel.

I also moved to the common pgtable.h most of the "small" accessors to the
PTE bits and modification helpers (pte_mk*). The actual accessors remain
in their separate files.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-03-24 13:47:33 +11:00