Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Apr 25 2008 - 12:44:19 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > hm, right now we've got a debug protection in set_fixmap() to make
> > sure it's only ever called once. So it's going to be a noisy bootup.
> > (but it's a warning only) The patch below removes that.
>
> No, I think the warning is good, I should have done some kind of
> clear_fixmap() after doing the mmap.

yeah - then you need the patch below that makes clear_fixmap() available
on 64-bit as well.

Ingo

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Subject: x86: make clear_fixmap() available on 64-bit as well
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Apr 25 18:25:25 CEST 2008

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
include/asm-x86/fixmap.h | 8 ++++++++
include/asm-x86/fixmap_32.h | 7 ++-----
include/asm-x86/fixmap_64.h | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux/include/asm-x86/fixmap.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-x86/fixmap.h
+++ linux/include/asm-x86/fixmap.h
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_FIXMAP_H
+#define _ASM_FIXMAP_H
+
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
# include "fixmap_32.h"
#else
# include "fixmap_64.h"
#endif
+
+#define clear_fixmap(idx) \
+ __set_fixmap(idx, 0, __pgprot(0))
+
+#endif
Index: linux/include/asm-x86/fixmap_32.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-x86/fixmap_32.h
+++ linux/include/asm-x86/fixmap_32.h
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
* Support of BIGMEM added by Gerhard Wichert, Siemens AG, July 1999
*/

-#ifndef _ASM_FIXMAP_H
-#define _ASM_FIXMAP_H
+#ifndef _ASM_FIXMAP_32_H
+#define _ASM_FIXMAP_32_H


/* used by vmalloc.c, vsyscall.lds.S.
@@ -121,9 +121,6 @@ extern void reserve_top_address(unsigned
#define set_fixmap_nocache(idx, phys) \
__set_fixmap(idx, phys, PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE)

-#define clear_fixmap(idx) \
- __set_fixmap(idx, 0, __pgprot(0))
-
#define FIXADDR_TOP ((unsigned long)__FIXADDR_TOP)

#define __FIXADDR_SIZE (__end_of_permanent_fixed_addresses << PAGE_SHIFT)
Index: linux/include/asm-x86/fixmap_64.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-x86/fixmap_64.h
+++ linux/include/asm-x86/fixmap_64.h
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
* Copyright (C) 1998 Ingo Molnar
*/

-#ifndef _ASM_FIXMAP_H
-#define _ASM_FIXMAP_H
+#ifndef _ASM_FIXMAP_64_H
+#define _ASM_FIXMAP_64_H

#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <asm/apicdef.h>
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