Problem with module_init?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 00:08 -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:24:43 +1100
> "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> > I suspect I just screwed up the definition of PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC or
> > something like that.
> 
> Yup, that is exactly what you did ;) You left out _PAGE_HWEXEC. The
> following patch fixes the problem for me.

The proper fix is for PAGE_KERNEL_X to have _PAGE_HWEXEC. I'll fix that.

Cheers,
Ben.

> Cheers,
>    Sean
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
> index d9740e8..a84f248 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
> @@ -167,7 +167,8 @@ extern unsigned long bad_call_to_PMD_PAGE_SIZE(void);
>  #endif
>  
>  /* Make modules code happy. We don't set RO yet */
> -#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC	PAGE_KERNEL_X
> +// #define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC	PAGE_KERNEL_X
> +#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC __pgprot(_PAGE_BASE | _PAGE_KERNEL_RW | _PAGE_EXEC | _PAGE_HWEXEC)
>  
>  /* Advertise special mapping type for AGP */
>  #define PAGE_AGP		(PAGE_KERNEL_NC)