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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:29:16 +0000
Subject: Re: serious performance regression due to NX patch
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>, davidm@hpl.hp.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, jun.nakajima@intel.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org


On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:08:11PM -0400, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > the #ifdef could be made an arch inline or define. But it's really
> > academic as only ia64 seems to have this problem. So i'd suggest the patch
> > below.
> 
> Well, it's not.  We probably want each new port start to have the ia64
> behaviour, so it should be abstracted out nicer.

is it an issue? Each new port will have PT_GNU_STACK, unless they base
themselves on old compilers.

	Ingo