Re: serious performance regression due to NX patch

David Mosberger
2004-07-17T04:37:20Z

>>>>> 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,

--david