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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:44:59 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: 32 bit userland on G5
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Johannes Berg writes:

> Since apparently the G5 honours no-execute permissions, shouldn't the 64
> bit kernel set the READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality flag for 32-bit
> userland?

The elf_read_implies_exec() macro in include/asm-powerpc/elf.h
achieves the same effect, I believe.

Paul.