On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:44 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > I just looked at a /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables dump.... and there > are a bunch of pages which are RWX: > > 0xffff880000000000-0xffff880000097000 604K RW GLB x pte > 0xffff88000009d000-0xffff880000200000 1420K RW GLB x pte > 0xffff880000200000-0xffff880001000000 14M RW PSE GLB x pmd > 0xffff880001c00000-0xffff880035e00000 834M RW PSE GLB x pmd > 0xffff880035e00000-0xffff880035ffe000 2040K RW GLB x pte > 0xffff880036ff7000-0xffff880037000000 36K RW GLB x pte > 0xffff880037000000-0xffff880040000000 144M RW PSE GLB x pmd > 0xffffffff81c00000-0xffffffff81cea000 936K RW GLB x pte > 0xffffffff81dfd000-0xffffffff81e00000 12K RW GLB x pte > 0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff82000000 2M RW PSE GLB x pmd
after for-x86-boot we will have ---[ Low Kernel Mapping ]--- 0xffff880000000000-0xffff880000099000 612K RW GLB NX pte 0xffff880000099000-0xffff88000009a000 4K ro GLB NX pte 0xffff88000009a000-0xffff88000009b000 4K ro GLB x pte 0xffff88000009b000-0xffff880000200000 1428K RW GLB NX pte 0xffff880000200000-0xffff8800dfe00000 3580M RW PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffff8800dfe00000-0xffff8800dfffe000 2040K RW GLB NX pte 0xffff8800dfffe000-0xffff8800e0000000 8K pte 0xffff8800e0000000-0xffff880100000000 512M pmd 0xffff880100000000-0xffff8801a0000000 2560M RW PSE GLB NX pmd ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]--- 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000 16M pmd 0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff82a00000 26M RW PSE GLB x pmd 0xffffffff82a00000-0xffffffff82b21000 1156K RW GLB x pte 0xffffffff82b21000-0xffffffff82c00000 892K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82c00000-0xffffffff82e00000 2M RW PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff82e00000-0xffffffff82e92000 584K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82e92000-0xffffffff83000000 1464K RW GLB x pte 0xffffffff83000000-0xffffffff83c00000 12M RW PSE GLB x pmd 0xffffffff83c00000-0xffffffffa0000000 452M pmd so low mapping will only have trampoline get x set. is that expected ? Do we need to set low mapping corresponding to kernel range to x? Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
