Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750959AbWLLIAr (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:00:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750963AbWLLIAr (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:00:47 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:43156 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750959AbWLLIAq (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:00:46 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Whinge in paging_init if noexec is on with a non-PAE kernel From: Arjan van de Ven To: Kyle McMartin Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20061212023805.GE4044@athena.road.mcmartin.ca> References: <20061212000359.GB4044@athena.road.mcmartin.ca> <20061212023805.GE4044@athena.road.mcmartin.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:00:38 +0100 Message-Id: <1165910438.27217.555.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 722 Lines: 17 On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 21:38 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On second thought, this is probably better since most people will > presumably be booting non-PAE kernels, generating this message when > they've not tried to force the issue seems silly. why not go the simple way, and just remove noexec=on entirely? If your cpu can use NX, it'll get used automatically, and if not, it won't. There's never any use for passing noexec=on .. at all since it has no effect whatsoever. - 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/