Re: [PATCHv7 01/26] iommu/arm-smmu: change IOMMU_EXEC to IOMMU_NOEXEC

[Will Deacon]

Hi Antonios,

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 03:46:00PM +0100, Antonios Motakis wrote:
> Exposing the XN flag of the SMMU driver as IOMMU_NOEXEC instead of
> IOMMU_EXEC makes it enforceable, since for IOMMUs that don't support
> the XN flag pages will always be executable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c | 9 +++++----
>  include/linux/iommu.h    | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

[...]

> diff --git a/include/linux/iommu.h b/include/linux/iommu.h
> index 20f9a52..e1a644c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iommu.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iommu.h
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
>  #define IOMMU_READ	(1 << 0)
>  #define IOMMU_WRITE	(1 << 1)
>  #define IOMMU_CACHE	(1 << 2) /* DMA cache coherency */
> -#define IOMMU_EXEC	(1 << 3)
> +#define IOMMU_NOEXEC	(1 << 3)

This hunk needs to be a separate patch merged by Joerg before I can take the
arm-smmu part (which looks fine).

Will
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/