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x86: NX bit handling in change_page_attr()

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This patch fixes a bug of change_page_attr/change_page_attr_addr on
Intel x86_64 CPUs.  After changing page attribute to be executable with
these functions, the page remains un-executable on Intel x86_64 CPU.
Because on Intel x86_64 CPU, only if the "NX" bits of all four level
page tables are cleared, the corresponding page is executable (refer to
section 4.13.2 of Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's
Manual).  So, the bug is fixed through clearing the "NX" bit of PMD when
splitting the huge PMD.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Huang, Ying 2007-10-17 18:04:35 +02:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 87cde760ab
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@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ __change_page_attr(unsigned long address, unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot,
split = split_large_page(address, prot, ref_prot2);
if (!split)
return -ENOMEM;
pgprot_val(ref_prot2) &= ~_PAGE_NX;
set_pte(kpte, mk_pte(split, ref_prot2));
kpte_page = split;
}