linux-kernel - [PATCH 7 of 8] x86: use PTE_MASK rather than ad-hoc mask

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Date:	Fri, 09 May 2008 12:02:45 +0100
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7 of 8] x86: use PTE_MASK rather than ad-hoc mask

Use ~PTE_MASK to extract the non-pfn parts of the pte (ie, the pte
flags), rather than constructing an ad-hoc mask.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
---
 include/asm-x86/pgtable.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h b/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
--- a/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
 	return __pte(val);
 }
 
-#define pte_pgprot(x) __pgprot(pte_val(x) & (0xfff | _PAGE_NX))
+#define pte_pgprot(x) __pgprot(pte_val(x) & ~PTE_MASK)
 
 #define canon_pgprot(p) __pgprot(pgprot_val(p) & __supported_pte_mask)
 


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