Re: serious performance regression due to NX patch

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Jul 11 2004 - 06:58:09 EST



On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > +#ifdef __i386__
>
> Won't do on x86-64.

well on x86-64 'non-executable' really means non-executable, and always
did, right? (and this is completely separate from the issue of whether the
process stack is executable or not. This is about x86 that didnt enforce
the vma's protection bit.)

Ingo
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