From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] i386: clear_fixmap() should not use set_pte()
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:55:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455B3868.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
While not strictly required with the current code (as the upper half of
page table entries generated by __set_fixmap() cannot be non-zero due
to the second parameter of this function being 'unsigned long'), the
use of set_pte() in __set_fixmap() in the context of clear_fixmap() is
still improper with CONFIG_X86_PAE (see the respective comment in
include/asm-i386/pgtable-3level.h) and would turn into a bug if that
second parameter ever gets changed to a 64-bit type.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
--- linux-2.6.19-rc5/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c 2006-11-08 09:21:37.000000000 +0100
+++ 2.6.19-rc5-i386-clear_fixmap/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c 2006-11-06 12:13:29.000000000 +0100
@@ -95,8 +95,11 @@ static void set_pte_pfn(unsigned long va
return;
}
pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, vaddr);
- /* <pfn,flags> stored as-is, to permit clearing entries */
- set_pte(pte, pfn_pte(pfn, flags));
+ if (pgprot_val(flags))
+ /* <pfn,flags> stored as-is, to permit clearing entries */
+ set_pte(pte, pfn_pte(pfn, flags));
+ else
+ pte_clear(&init_mm, vaddr, pte);
/*
* It's enough to flush this one mapping.
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