Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86: fix NX bit handling in change_page_attr

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> ...
> +       ref_prot = pte_pgprot(pte_mkexec(pte_clrhuge(*kpte)));
> 
> i.e. it now goes through all the proper accessors.

i guess it would be nicer to have the proper accessors to just clear the 
NX bit from ref-prot - instead of re-constructing the *kpte from 
scratch. But i see no other way to do it right now than to access 
pgprot_val() as an lvalue. Jeremy, what would be the best approach here?

	Ingo
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