From: Mingarelli, Thomas Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:59:00 +0000 (+0100) Subject: watchdog: hpwdt: Changes to handle NX secure bit in 32bit path X-Git-Tag: v3.2~22^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.eti.br/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e67d668e147c3b4fec638c9e0ace04319f5ceccd;p=cascardo%2Flinux.git watchdog: hpwdt: Changes to handle NX secure bit in 32bit path This patch makes use of the set_memory_x() kernel API in order to make necessary BIOS calls to source NMIs. This is needed for SLES11 SP2 and the latest upstream kernel as it appears the NX Execute Disable has grown in its control. Signed-off by: Thomas Mingarelli Signed-off by: Wim Van Sebroeck Cc: stable@kernel.org --- diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c index 3774c9b8dac9..8464ea1c36a1 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c @@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ static int __devinit cru_detect(unsigned long map_entry, cmn_regs.u1.reax = CRU_BIOS_SIGNATURE_VALUE; + set_memory_x((unsigned long)bios32_entrypoint, (2 * PAGE_SIZE)); asminline_call(&cmn_regs, bios32_entrypoint); if (cmn_regs.u1.ral != 0) { @@ -248,8 +249,10 @@ static int __devinit cru_detect(unsigned long map_entry, if ((physical_bios_base + physical_bios_offset)) { cru_rom_addr = ioremap(cru_physical_address, cru_length); - if (cru_rom_addr) + if (cru_rom_addr) { + set_memory_x((unsigned long)cru_rom_addr, cru_length); retval = 0; + } } printk(KERN_DEBUG "hpwdt: CRU Base Address: 0x%lx\n",