Re: serious performance regression due to NX patch

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > ok, agreed. I'll check that it still does the right thing on x86.
> 
> it doesnt seem to do the right thing for !PT_GNU_STACK applications on 
> x86:

how about the patch below? This way we recognize the fact that x86 didnt
have any executability check previously at the point where we discover
that it's a 'legacy' binary.

	Ingo

--- linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c.orig3	
+++ linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c	
@@ -627,8 +627,14 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_
 				executable_stack = EXSTACK_DISABLE_X;
 			break;
 		}
+#ifdef __i386_
+	/*
+	 * Legacy x86 binaries have an expectation of executability for
+	 * virtually all their address-space - turn executability on:
+	 */
 	if (i = elf_ex.e_phnum)
 		def_flags |= VM_EXEC | VM_MAYEXEC;
+#endif
 
 	/* Some simple consistency checks for the interpreter */
 	if (elf_interpreter) {