On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > I may be missing the obvious, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of > > non-executable mappings? > > The hardware in question doesn't support non-executable mappings; > otherwise, it'd never have worked in the first place. Note that this is > only allowed on 32-bit, non-book-E. > > There isn't much value in enforcing non-exec mappings only if it happens > to be the first fault on a given page.
Thank you. I was reading this thread last week, and scratching my head, thinking wtf ?? --linas _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
