Re: serious performance regression due to NX patch

David Mosberger
2004-07-12T20:27:27Z

>>>>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said:

Linus> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> so ... this should be #ifndef ia64?

Linus> No. Make it a CONFIG_DEFAULT_NOEXEC and make the relevant
Linus> architectures do a

Linus> define_bool DEFAULT_NOEXEC y

Linus> in their Kconfig files.

Would it be better to reverse the sense (i.e., make it DEFAULT_EXEC),
since the latter new platforms by default almost certainly do NOT want
DEFAULT_EXEC?

--david