Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:32:57 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86: fix NX bit handling in change_page_attr |
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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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