[PATCH] x86 : omit duplicate processing at pte_pgprot()

From: ohyama_sec
Date: Sun Aug 09 2009 - 11:43:21 EST


I suggest following PATCH that omit duplicate processing of mask.

pte_pgprot() macro [arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h] call pte_flags() [arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h] that return value is masked by PTE_FLAGS_MASK in pte_flags() function, and this macro also masks the returned value by PTE_FLAGS_MASK.

I guess that we don't have to do the mask processing at pte_pgprot() macro because it has already been masked at pte_flags().
So, how about the following PATCH ?

<Hiroyasu OHYAMA>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 3cc06e3..a0b454c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ static inline pgprot_t pgprot_modify(pgprot_t oldprot, pgprot_t newprot)
return __pgprot(preservebits | addbits);
}

-#define pte_pgprot(x) __pgprot(pte_flags(x) & PTE_FLAGS_MASK)
+#define pte_pgprot(x) __pgprot(pte_flags(x))

#define canon_pgprot(p) __pgprot(massage_pgprot(p))
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