Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 19:30:58 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > >>> #define __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC \
> > >>> - (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_GLOBAL)
> > >>> + (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ACCESSED)
> > >>>
> > >
> > > This shouldn't be necessary. The old 64-bit code defined everything
> > > without _PAGE_GLOBAL, but then used a MAKE_GLOBAL() macro to OR it
> > > in later. This seemed a bit roundabout to me, so I just put it in
> > > from the outset.
>
> actually, this is wrong.
>
> a couple of places use __PAGE_* values, which you've now changed to
> include the _PAGE_GLOBAL flag.

yep, fixing this resolves the crash.

Ingo
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