Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Tue Nov 10 2009 - 17:42:43 EST


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:20:31PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > *THIS* is the kind of complexity that makes me think that having a
> > single source for all interpretation done in the kernel is the
> > preferred option.
>
> Definitely agreed ... The NX code is quite a maze right now, so changes
> to it should come generously laced with cleanups.

BTW, I don't see why we should be impacted by NX. Trying to
execute from an NX page would return a SEGV, not SIGILL, so
we should not be bothered, am I wrong ?

Willy

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