Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:29:49 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3]: Staging: hv: Use native page allocation/free functions |
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:59:00AM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > --- a/drivers/staging/hv/hv.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/hv.c > @@ -230,7 +230,12 @@ int hv_init(void) > * Allocate the hypercall page memory > * virtaddr = osd_page_alloc(1); > */ > - virtaddr = osd_virtual_alloc_exec(PAGE_SIZE); > +#ifdef __x86_64__ > + virtaddr = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC); > +#else > + virtaddr = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, > + __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL & (~_PAGE_NX))); > +#endif
I'm not saying this patch is wrong at all, but I still don't understand why this is different depending on the architecture of the machine. Why is this necessary, it should be ok to do the same type of allocation no matter what the processor is, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
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