Re: serious performance regression due to NX patch

From: David Mosberger
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 15:31:21 EST


>>>>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> said:

Linus> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> so ... this should be #ifndef ia64?

Linus> No. Make it a CONFIG_DEFAULT_NOEXEC and make the relevant
Linus> architectures do a

Linus> define_bool DEFAULT_NOEXEC y

Linus> in their Kconfig files.

Would it be better to reverse the sense (i.e., make it DEFAULT_EXEC),
since the latter new platforms by default almost certainly do NOT want
DEFAULT_EXEC?

--david
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