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authorHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>2008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100
commitb406ac61e94875723540bd56e26f634afdeef489 (patch)
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x86: remove nx_enabled from fault.c
On !PAE 32-bit, _PAGE_NX will be 0, making is_prefetch always return early. The test is sufficient on PAE as __supported_pte_mask is updated in the same places as nx_enabled in init_32.c which also takes disable_nx into account. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/fault.c11
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 14a0c6e..99d273d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -92,18 +92,13 @@ static int is_prefetch(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr,
unsigned char *max_instr;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-# ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
- /* If it was a exec fault on NX page, ignore */
- if (nx_enabled && (error_code & PF_INSTR))
+ if (!(__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX))
return 0;
-# else
- return 0;
-# endif
-#else /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
+#endif
+
/* If it was a exec fault on NX page, ignore */
if (error_code & PF_INSTR)
return 0;
-#endif
instr = (unsigned char *)convert_ip_to_linear(current, regs);
max_instr = instr + 15;