From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030270Ab3BGA20 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2013 19:28:26 -0500 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:42286 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030253Ab3BGA2W (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2013 19:28:22 -0500 Message-ID: <5112F518.3020003@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:28:08 -0800 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Phil Turmel , "H. Peter Anvin" , paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au, ben@decadent.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: PAE problems was [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps References: <201302010313.r113DTj3027195@como.maths.usyd.edu.au> <510B46C3.5040505@turmel.org> <20130201102044.GA2801@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <20130201102545.GA3053@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20130201102545.GA3053@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13020700-5806-0000-0000-00001F487C06 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/01/2013 02:25 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > Ouch, and... IIRC (hpa should know for sure), PAE is neccessary for > R^X support on x86, thus getting more common, not less. If it does not > work, that's bad news. Dare I ask what "R^X" is?