Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264132AbUFBVAP (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:00:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264138AbUFBVAO (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:00:14 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:28551 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264132AbUFBVAK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:00:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 22:00:08 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , "Siddha, Suresh B" , "Nakajima, Jun" Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 Message-ID: <20040602210008.GA8176@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , "Siddha, Suresh B" , "Nakajima, Jun" References: <20040602205025.GA21555@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040602205025.GA21555@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 13 the _GPL export of vmalloc_exec is silly, it's a trivial __vmalloc wrapper and __vmalloc is exported. You might be better of just killing it anyway, I don't see much use for it outside module support. apropos modules, in SuSE's 2.4 kernels Andi had a nice optimization to not use vmalloc if we could get high enough order allocations, might be worth ressurecting that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/