[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] arm: cpu: armv7: omap-common: Clear XN bit in the ARMV7_DCACHE_POLICY

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Fri Oct 28 09:26:08 CEST 2016



On 28/10/2016 08:31, Keerthy wrote:
> Clear the XN bit in the ARMV7_DCACHE_POLICY so as to mark
> the regions as execute okay.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy at ti.com>

How did you ever get the bit set in DCACHE_WRITEALLOC or WRITEBACK in
the first place? Both are RAM mapping flags which shouldn't have the XN
mask set.


Alex

> ---
>  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/omap-cache.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/omap-cache.c b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/omap-cache.c
> index b37163a..a71aa0d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/omap-cache.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/omap-cache.c
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
>   */
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ARMV7_LPAE
> -#define ARMV7_DCACHE_POLICY	DCACHE_WRITEALLOC
> +#define ARMV7_DCACHE_POLICY	DCACHE_WRITEALLOC & ~TTB_SECT_XN_MASK
>  #else
>  #define ARMV7_DCACHE_POLICY	DCACHE_WRITEBACK & ~TTB_SECT_XN_MASK
>  #endif
> 


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