Re: x86/mm/pageattr: Code without effect?

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:10:00PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
>          * that we limited the number of possible pages already to
>          * the number of pages in the large page.
>          */
>         if (address == (address & pmask) && cpa->numpages == (psize >>
> PAGE_SHIFT)) {
>                 /*
>                  * The address is aligned and the number of pages
>                  * covers the full page.
>                  */
>                 new_pte = pfn_pte(pte_pfn(old_pte), new_prot);
>                                                      ^
> 
> This one. The first patch changed
> 
> -               new_pte = pfn_pte(pte_pfn(old_pte), canon_pgprot(new_prot));
> +               new_pte = pfn_pte(pte_pfn(old_pte), new_prot);
> 
> The fixup patch drops new_prot completely from being initialized and only works
> on req_prot. Probably it would be best to also drop the definition of new_prot.
> I think it then completely unused.

Actually, we do need and initialize new_prot at line 495:

	pfn = pte_pfn(old_pte) + ((address & (psize - 1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
	cpa->pfn = pfn;

	new_prot = static_protections(req_prot, address, pfn);		<---

and we need it for the subsequent loop where we go over the 512 PTEs to
decide whether to split or not.

So it is needed after all, AFAICT.

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