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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2009-03-03 13:15:04 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-03 12:21:18 +0100
commite087edd8c056292191bb989baf49f83ee509e624 (patch)
tree9dd2ea0b8e4700fd166d31c785be90186eec81d8 /arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
parent05f209e7b936a48e341d36831079116a06658ccc (diff)
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x86: make sure initmem is writable on 64-bit
Impact: unification This patch ports commit 3c1df68b848b39270752ff8d4b956cc4a4dce0f6 ("x86: make sure initmem is writable") to the 64-bit version to unify implementations of free_init_pages(). Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1236078904.2675.17.camel@penberg-laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/init_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init_64.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index e6d36b490250..03da9030d0ee 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -962,6 +962,13 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
begin, PAGE_ALIGN(end));
set_memory_np(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
#else
+ /*
+ * 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);
+
printk(KERN_INFO "Freeing %s: %luk freed\n", what, (end - begin) >> 10);
for (; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
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