Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262213AbUFGItX (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 04:49:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261939AbUFGItX (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 04:49:23 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50058 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262213AbUFGItW (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 04:49:22 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <1086521938.4862.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086521938.4862.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C2B51C.9030203@codeweavers.com> <20040606073241.GA6214@infradead.org> <40C2E045.8090708@codeweavers.com> To: David Woodhouse Cc: Mike McCormack , Christoph Hellwig , mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: WINE + NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 User-Agent: EMH/1.14.1 SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 09:49:13 +0100 Message-ID: <8143.1086598153@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 719 Lines: 17 > > 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? Yes. I've written one which worked, but it hasn't been ported to the 2.6 kernel. David - 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/