Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:37:20 -0700 | Subject | Re: serious performance regression due to NX patch |
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>>>>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:39:40 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said:
Linus> No. Using "def_flags" was a mistake for the whole VM_EXEC Linus> thing. It's not designed for that, and it doesn't work that Linus> way. I applied the paper-over fix that gets it Linus> almost-working, but I'm waiting for Ingo to rewrite it by Linus> just saving the "executable_stack" information at exec time, Linus> and not playing with def_flags at all.
I'm very happy to hear that.
Thanks,
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