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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2011-01-12 18:06:06 -0500
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2011-01-12 18:06:06 -0500
commit56dbed129df3fdd4caf9018b6e7599ee258a5420 (patch)
treeb902491aef3a99efe0d9d49edd0f6e414dba654f /arch/x86/mm/init.c
parent2a2d31c8dc6f1ebcf5eab1d93a0cb0fb4ed57c7c (diff)
parentf878133bf022717b880d0e0995b8f91436fd605c (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into idle-test
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/init.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index c0e28a13de7..947f42abe82 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -364,8 +364,9 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
/*
* 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.
+ * writeable and non-executable first.
*/
+ set_memory_nx(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
set_memory_rw(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
printk(KERN_INFO "Freeing %s: %luk freed\n", what, (end - begin) >> 10);