Commit 3085354d authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar

x86: prefetch fix #2

Linus noticed a second bug and an uncleanliness:

 - we'd return on any instruction fetch fault

 - we'd use both the value of 16 and the PF_INSTR symbol which are
   the same and make no sense

the cleanup nicely unifies this piece of logic.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent fb8c7fb2
......@@ -91,13 +91,10 @@ static int is_prefetch(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr,
int prefetch = 0;
unsigned char *max_instr;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
/* Catch an obscure case of prefetch inside an NX page: */
if ((__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX) && (error_code & 16))
return 0;
#endif
/* If it was a exec fault on NX page, ignore */
/*
* If it was a exec (instruction fetch) fault on NX page, then
* do not ignore the fault:
*/
if (error_code & PF_INSTR)
return 0;
......
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