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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2008-01-30 13:34:07 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 13:34:07 +0100
commit3c1df68b848b39270752ff8d4b956cc4a4dce0f6 (patch)
tree7edffa58f936a55fe6a69ca32cde71c0b9d20354 /arch
parent488fd99588bf23da951b524a806e44feaa1aa366 (diff)
x86: make sure initmem is writable
When we free initmem, various rodata and CPA checks may have left memory read only.. this patch ensures that the memory is writable before we free it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init_32.c7
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init_64.c1
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
index 0d3369b900e..4d115654519 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
@@ -780,6 +780,13 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
{
unsigned long addr;
+ /*
+ * We just marked the kernel text read only above, now that
+ * we are going to free part of that, we need to make that
+ * writeable first.
+ */
+ set_memory_rw(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+
for (addr = begin; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(addr));
init_page_count(virt_to_page(addr));
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 9b69fa54a83..f97ace7a55e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
* 2Mb kernel mapping just for this debug feature.
*/
if (begin >= __START_KERNEL_map) {
+ set_memory_rw(begin, (end - begin)/PAGE_SIZE);
set_memory_np(begin, (end - begin)/PAGE_SIZE);
set_memory_nx(begin, (end - begin)/PAGE_SIZE);
}