x86: define PTE_MASK in a universally useful way
Define PTE_MASK so that it contains a meaningful value for all x86 pagetable configurations. Previously it was defined as a "long" which means that it was too short to cover a 32-bit PAE pte entry. It is now defined as a pteval_t, which is an integer type long enough to contain a full pte (or pmd, pud, pgd). This fixes an Xorg crash on 32-bit x86 with PAE due to corruption of the NX bit in mprotect due to the incorrect type/value of PTE_MASK reported by Hugh Dickins: "Yes, thanks Jeremy: I've checked that each stage builds and runs X on my boxes here, x86_32 and x86_32+PAE and x86_64. (So even 1/8 is enough to fix the PAT pte_modify issue, though 2/8 then fixes compiler warnings.)" Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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