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So far, we loose the Exec property whenever we take permission faults, as we always reconstruct the PTE/PMD from scratch. This can be counter productive as we can end-up with the following fault sequence: X -> RO -> ROX -> RW -> RWX Instead, we can lookup the existing PTE/PMD and clear the XN bit in the new entry if it was already cleared in the old one, leadig to a much nicer fault sequence: X -> ROX -> RWX Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.