Subject: Re: WINE + NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Mike McCormack <mike@codeweavers.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, mingo@elte.hu,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com
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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 12:38:58 +0100
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On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 18:13 +0900, Mike McCormack wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > if you have a need for a special virtual memory layout please use your
> > own binary loader as I already suggested earlier in the thread, i.e.
> > binfmt_pecoff.
> 
> We are using our own user space loader now, but a kernel space loader is 
>   neither portable or practical.

Actually doesn't a kernel space loader let you discard text pages and
fix them up again on demand as Windows does, rather than doing the
relocations at load time and then having the pages considered dirty so
they have to be swapped instead of just discarded? 

-- 
dwmw2

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