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.
To be more precise, the classic MMU does appear to have non-exec functionality, but at the segment level, which is less than useful for implementing vma flags. -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
