The patch titled i386: minor nx handling adjustment has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is i386-minor-nx-handling-adjustment.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: i386: minor nx handling adjustment From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> Constrain __supported_pte_mask and NX handling to just the PAE kernel. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/mm/init.c | 7 ++++--- include/asm-i386/page.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/mm/init.c~i386-minor-nx-handling-adjustment arch/i386/mm/init.c --- a/arch/i386/mm/init.c~i386-minor-nx-handling-adjustment +++ a/arch/i386/mm/init.c @@ -472,6 +472,10 @@ void zap_low_mappings (void) flush_tlb_all(); } +int nx_enabled = 0; + +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE + static int disable_nx __initdata = 0; u64 __supported_pte_mask __read_mostly = ~_PAGE_NX; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__supported_pte_mask); @@ -501,9 +505,6 @@ static int __init noexec_setup(char *str } early_param("noexec", noexec_setup); -int nx_enabled = 0; -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE - static void __init set_nx(void) { unsigned int v[4], l, h; diff -puN include/asm-i386/page.h~i386-minor-nx-handling-adjustment include/asm-i386/page.h --- a/include/asm-i386/page.h~i386-minor-nx-handling-adjustment +++ a/include/asm-i386/page.h @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ extern int nx_enabled; #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE -extern unsigned long long __supported_pte_mask; typedef struct { unsigned long pte_low, pte_high; } pte_t; typedef struct { unsigned long long pmd; } pmd_t; typedef struct { unsigned long long pgd; } pgd_t; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx are remove-pci_dac_dma_-apis.patch more-fix-x86_64-mm-xen-xen-smp-guest-support.patch i386-minor-nx-handling-adjustment.patch mm-fix-improper-init-type-section-references.patch page-table-handling-cleanup.patch modpost-white-list-pattern-adjustment.patch adjust-nosmp-handling.patch kill-vmalloc_earlyreserve.patch x86-fix-change_page_attr-tlb-and-cache-flushing.patch x86-smp-alt-once-option-is-only-useful-with-hotplug_cpu.patch x86-64-remove-unused-variable-maxcpus.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html