diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 4119379..7b4a172 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
+#include <asm/proto.h>
 
 /*
  * The current flushing context - we pass it instead of 5 arguments:
@@ -26,8 +27,23 @@
 	pgprot_t	mask_clr;
 	int		numpages;
 	int		flushtlb;
+	unsigned long	pfn;
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+
+static inline unsigned long highmap_start_pfn(void)
+{
+	return __pa(_text) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+}
+
+static inline unsigned long highmap_end_pfn(void)
+{
+	return __pa(round_up((unsigned long)_end, PMD_SIZE)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+}
+
+#endif
+
 static inline int
 within(unsigned long addr, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
@@ -123,29 +139,14 @@
 	}
 }
 
-#define HIGH_MAP_START	__START_KERNEL_map
-#define HIGH_MAP_END	(__START_KERNEL_map + KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE)
-
-
-/*
- * Converts a virtual address to a X86-64 highmap address
- */
-static unsigned long virt_to_highmap(void *address)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	return __pa((unsigned long)address) + HIGH_MAP_START - phys_base;
-#else
-	return (unsigned long)address;
-#endif
-}
-
 /*
  * Certain areas of memory on x86 require very specific protection flags,
  * for example the BIOS area or kernel text. Callers don't always get this
  * right (again, ioremap() on BIOS memory is not uncommon) so this function
  * checks and fixes these known static required protection bits.
  */
-static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long address)
+static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long address,
+				   unsigned long pfn)
 {
 	pgprot_t forbidden = __pgprot(0);
 
@@ -153,30 +154,23 @@
 	 * The BIOS area between 640k and 1Mb needs to be executable for
 	 * PCI BIOS based config access (CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS) support.
 	 */
-	if (within(__pa(address), BIOS_BEGIN, BIOS_END))
+	if (within(pfn, BIOS_BEGIN >> PAGE_SHIFT, BIOS_END >> PAGE_SHIFT))
 		pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_NX;
 
 	/*
 	 * The kernel text needs to be executable for obvious reasons
-	 * Does not cover __inittext since that is gone later on
+	 * Does not cover __inittext since that is gone later on. On
+	 * 64bit we do not enforce !NX on the low mapping
 	 */
 	if (within(address, (unsigned long)_text, (unsigned long)_etext))
 		pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_NX;
-	/*
-	 * Do the same for the x86-64 high kernel mapping
-	 */
-	if (within(address, virt_to_highmap(_text), virt_to_highmap(_etext)))
-		pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_NX;
 
-	/* The .rodata section needs to be read-only */
-	if (within(address, (unsigned long)__start_rodata,
-				(unsigned long)__end_rodata))
-		pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_RW;
 	/*
-	 * Do the same for the x86-64 high kernel mapping
+	 * The .rodata section needs to be read-only. Using the pfn
+	 * catches all aliases.
 	 */
-	if (within(address, virt_to_highmap(__start_rodata),
-				virt_to_highmap(__end_rodata)))
+	if (within(pfn, __pa((unsigned long)__start_rodata) >> PAGE_SHIFT,
+		   __pa((unsigned long)__end_rodata) >> PAGE_SHIFT))
 		pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_RW;
 
 	prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) & ~pgprot_val(forbidden));
@@ -253,7 +247,7 @@
 try_preserve_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address,
 			struct cpa_data *cpa)
 {
-	unsigned long nextpage_addr, numpages, pmask, psize, flags, addr;
+	unsigned long nextpage_addr, numpages, pmask, psize, flags, addr, pfn;
 	pte_t new_pte, old_pte, *tmp;
 	pgprot_t old_prot, new_prot;
 	int i, do_split = 1;
@@ -301,7 +295,15 @@
 
 	pgprot_val(new_prot) &= ~pgprot_val(cpa->mask_clr);
 	pgprot_val(new_prot) |= pgprot_val(cpa->mask_set);
-	new_prot = static_protections(new_prot, address);
+
+	/*
+	 * old_pte points to the large page base address. So we need
+	 * to add the offset of the virtual address:
+	 */
+	pfn = pte_pfn(old_pte) + ((address & (psize - 1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	cpa->pfn = pfn;
+
+	new_prot = static_protections(new_prot, address, pfn);
 
 	/*
 	 * We need to check the full range, whether
@@ -309,8 +311,9 @@
 	 * the pages in the range we try to preserve:
 	 */
 	addr = address + PAGE_SIZE;
-	for (i = 1; i < cpa->numpages; i++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
-		pgprot_t chk_prot = static_protections(new_prot, addr);
+	pfn++;
+	for (i = 1; i < cpa->numpages; i++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, pfn++) {
+		pgprot_t chk_prot = static_protections(new_prot, addr, pfn);
 
 		if (pgprot_val(chk_prot) != pgprot_val(new_prot))
 			goto out_unlock;
@@ -505,46 +508,51 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int __change_page_attr(unsigned long address, struct cpa_data *cpa)
+static int __change_page_attr(struct cpa_data *cpa, int primary)
 {
+	unsigned long address = cpa->vaddr;
 	int do_split, err;
 	unsigned int level;
 	struct page *kpte_page;
-	pte_t *kpte;
+	pte_t *kpte, old_pte;
 
 repeat:
 	kpte = lookup_address(address, &level);
 	if (!kpte)
+		return primary ? -EINVAL : 0;
+
+	old_pte = *kpte;
+	if (!pte_val(old_pte)) {
+		if (!primary)
+			return 0;
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "CPA: called for zero pte. "
+		       "vaddr = %lx cpa->vaddr = %lx\n", address,
+		       cpa->vaddr);
+		WARN_ON(1);
 		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	kpte_page = virt_to_page(kpte);
 	BUG_ON(PageLRU(kpte_page));
 	BUG_ON(PageCompound(kpte_page));
 
 	if (level == PG_LEVEL_4K) {
-		pte_t new_pte, old_pte = *kpte;
+		pte_t new_pte;
 		pgprot_t new_prot = pte_pgprot(old_pte);
-
-		if(!pte_val(old_pte)) {
-			printk(KERN_WARNING "CPA: called for zero pte. "
-			       "vaddr = %lx cpa->vaddr = %lx\n", address,
-				cpa->vaddr);
-			WARN_ON(1);
-			return -EINVAL;
-		}
+		unsigned long pfn = pte_pfn(old_pte);
 
 		pgprot_val(new_prot) &= ~pgprot_val(cpa->mask_clr);
 		pgprot_val(new_prot) |= pgprot_val(cpa->mask_set);
 
-		new_prot = static_protections(new_prot, address);
+		new_prot = static_protections(new_prot, address, pfn);
 
 		/*
 		 * We need to keep the pfn from the existing PTE,
 		 * after all we're only going to change it's attributes
 		 * not the memory it points to
 		 */
-		new_pte = pfn_pte(pte_pfn(old_pte), canon_pgprot(new_prot));
-
+		new_pte = pfn_pte(pfn, canon_pgprot(new_prot));
+		cpa->pfn = pfn;
 		/*
 		 * Do we really change anything ?
 		 */
@@ -581,67 +589,44 @@
 	return err;
 }
 
-/**
- * change_page_attr_addr - Change page table attributes in linear mapping
- * @address: Virtual address in linear mapping.
- * @prot:    New page table attribute (PAGE_*)
- *
- * Change page attributes of a page in the direct mapping. This is a variant
- * of change_page_attr() that also works on memory holes that do not have
- * mem_map entry (pfn_valid() is false).
- *
- * See change_page_attr() documentation for more details.
- *
- * Modules and drivers should use the set_memory_* APIs instead.
- */
-static int change_page_attr_addr(struct cpa_data *cpa)
+static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(struct cpa_data *cpa, int checkalias);
+
+static int cpa_process_alias(struct cpa_data *cpa)
 {
-	int err;
-	unsigned long address = cpa->vaddr;
+	struct cpa_data alias_cpa;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (cpa->pfn > max_pfn_mapped)
+		return 0;
+
+	alias_cpa = *cpa;
+	alias_cpa.vaddr = (unsigned long) __va(cpa->pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
+
+	ret = __change_page_attr_set_clr(&alias_cpa, 0);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	unsigned long phys_addr = __pa(address);
-
-	/*
-	 * If we are inside the high mapped kernel range, then we
-	 * fixup the low mapping first. __va() returns the virtual
-	 * address in the linear mapping:
-	 */
-	if (within(address, HIGH_MAP_START, HIGH_MAP_END))
-		address = (unsigned long) __va(phys_addr);
-#endif
-
-	err = __change_page_attr(address, cpa);
-	if (err)
-		return err;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 	/*
 	 * If the physical address is inside the kernel map, we need
 	 * to touch the high mapped kernel as well:
 	 */
-	if (within(phys_addr, 0, KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE)) {
-		/*
-		 * Calc the high mapping address. See __phys_addr()
-		 * for the non obvious details.
-		 *
-		 * Note that NX and other required permissions are
-		 * checked in static_protections().
-		 */
-		address = phys_addr + HIGH_MAP_START - phys_base;
+	if (!within(cpa->pfn, highmap_start_pfn(), highmap_end_pfn()))
+		return 0;
 
-		/*
-		 * Our high aliases are imprecise, because we check
-		 * everything between 0 and KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE, so do
-		 * not propagate lookup failures back to users:
-		 */
-		__change_page_attr(address, cpa);
-	}
+	alias_cpa = *cpa;
+	alias_cpa.vaddr =
+		(cpa->pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) + __START_KERNEL_map - phys_base;
+
+	/*
+	 * The high mapping range is imprecise, so ignore the return value.
+	 */
+	__change_page_attr_set_clr(&alias_cpa, 0);
 #endif
-	return err;
+	return ret;
 }
 
-static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(struct cpa_data *cpa)
+static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(struct cpa_data *cpa, int checkalias)
 {
 	int ret, numpages = cpa->numpages;
 
@@ -651,10 +636,17 @@
 		 * preservation check.
 		 */
 		cpa->numpages = numpages;
-		ret = change_page_attr_addr(cpa);
+
+		ret = __change_page_attr(cpa, checkalias);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
 
+		if (checkalias) {
+			ret = cpa_process_alias(cpa);
+			if (ret)
+				return ret;
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * Adjust the number of pages with the result of the
 		 * CPA operation. Either a large page has been
@@ -703,7 +695,7 @@
 	cpa.mask_clr = mask_clr;
 	cpa.flushtlb = 0;
 
-	ret = __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa);
+	ret = __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, 1);
 
 	/*
 	 * Check whether we really changed something:
@@ -841,7 +833,7 @@
 				.mask_set = __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW),
 				.mask_clr = __pgprot(0)};
 
-	return __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa);
+	return __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, 1);
 }
 
 static int __set_pages_np(struct page *page, int numpages)
@@ -851,7 +843,7 @@
 				.mask_set = __pgprot(0),
 				.mask_clr = __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW)};
 
-	return __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa);
+	return __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, 1);
 }
 
 void kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)