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authorJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2011-03-01 15:04:39 -0500
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2011-03-01 15:04:39 -0500
commit6fae9c25134baffbeeb20031479e7ff6f6d8eec0 (patch)
treec9ab89992ce5293a43cd455a81dc8a5926a28a5e /arch/x86/mm/init.c
parentc186794dbb466b45cf40f942f2d09d6d5b4b0e42 (diff)
parentf5412be599602124d2bdd49947b231dd77c0bf99 (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc6' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts: block/cfq-iosched.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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);