As seen below, allthough the init sections have been freed, the associated memory area is still marked as executable in the page tables.
~ dmesg [ 5.860093] Freeing unused kernel memory: 592K (c0570000 - c0604000) ~ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables ---[ Start of kernel VM ]--- 0xc0000000-0xc0497fff 4704K rw X present dirty accessed shared 0xc0498000-0xc056ffff 864K rw present dirty accessed shared 0xc0570000-0xc059ffff 192K rw X present dirty accessed shared 0xc05a0000-0xc7ffffff 125312K rw present dirty accessed shared ---[ vmalloc() Area ]--- This patch fixes that. The implementation is done by reusing the change_page_attr() function implemented for CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr> --- arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 1 + arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h | 3 +++ arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c index 8e9bef964dbf..250601ccc907 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c @@ -393,6 +393,7 @@ void free_initmem(void) { ppc_md.progress = ppc_printk_progress; free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM); + remap_init_ram(); } #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h index d46128b22150..207af7ad3bda 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ extern void _tlbia(void); #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32 extern void mapin_ram(void); +void remap_init_ram(void); extern void setbat(int index, unsigned long virt, phys_addr_t phys, unsigned int size, pgprot_t prot); @@ -105,6 +106,8 @@ struct hash_pte; extern struct hash_pte *Hash, *Hash_end; extern unsigned long Hash_size, Hash_mask; +#else +static inline void remap_init_ram(void) {} #endif /* CONFIG_PPC32 */ extern unsigned long ioremap_bot; diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c index bdfee8e62a6a..0dc9c9d8fafb 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c @@ -323,8 +323,6 @@ get_pteptr(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t **ptep, pmd_t **pmdp) return(retval); } -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC - static int __change_page_attr_noflush(struct page *page, pgprot_t prot) { pte_t *kpte; @@ -347,7 +345,7 @@ static int __change_page_attr_noflush(struct page *page, pgprot_t prot) /* * Change the page attributes of an page in the linear mapping. * - * THIS CONFLICTS WITH BAT MAPPINGS, DEBUG USE ONLY + * THIS DOES NOTHING WITH BAT MAPPINGS, DEBUG USE ONLY */ static int change_page_attr(struct page *page, int numpages, pgprot_t prot) { @@ -368,7 +366,16 @@ static int change_page_attr(struct page *page, int numpages, pgprot_t prot) return err; } +void remap_init_ram(void) +{ + struct page *page = virt_to_page(_sinittext); + unsigned long numpages = PFN_UP((unsigned long)_einittext) - + PFN_DOWN((unsigned long)_sinittext); + + change_page_attr(page, numpages, PAGE_KERNEL); +} +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC void __kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable) { if (PageHighMem(page)) -- 2.12.0