From e087edd8c056292191bb989baf49f83ee509e624 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pekka Enberg Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:15:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86: make sure initmem is writable on 64-bit Impact: unification This patch ports commit 3c1df68b848b39270752ff8d4b956cc4a4dce0f6 ("x86: make sure initmem is writable") to the 64-bit version to unify implementations of free_init_pages(). Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Cc: Arjan van de Ven LKML-Reference: <1236078904.2675.17.camel@penberg-laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index e6d36b490250..03da9030d0ee 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -962,6 +962,13 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end) begin, PAGE_ALIGN(end)); set_memory_np(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT); #else + /* + * We just marked the kernel text read only above, now that + * we are going to free part of that, we need to make that + * writeable first. + */ + set_memory_rw(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT); + printk(KERN_INFO "Freeing %s: %luk freed\n", what, (end - begin) >> 10); for (; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) { -- 2.39.5