Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 23:07:51 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
       "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
       "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2
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* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> 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.

ok, agreed.

> 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.

yeah, this might make sense.

	Ingo
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