Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752026AbZG2OIo (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:08:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751581AbZG2OIn (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:08:43 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com ([209.85.219.226]:44888 "EHLO mail-ew0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751493AbZG2OIn (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:08:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:subject:date:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer :x-mimeole; b=HolmQN7HL9mntbqANmdli4Swx4S48bcM+VKq8igqyuiKasMoz/0hlhtpMg7FeoIf9l BfNdpxxs50QYxtWFRDnRlH/7896gUtNjFgNQppiRp8bF6zdyUIH4TXSwkFOMExh0SMU5 /K0G/ek/pSsnKaJPmQxKRd+7X/6Pv1NASQt+M= Message-ID: <864C1A9245EB4A3581996E6477890451@HPLAPTOP> From: "Aaron Gray" To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Does Linux support Data Exectiion Protection ? Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:08:35 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 549 Lines: 16 Does Linux suppoert DEP, on newer x86 CPU's ? I am wondering as this does effect alot of VM's using JIT technology if they are wriiten without proper code memory allocation. This is a problem for StrongTalk and FoNC' IDC. If EP is availiable how configurable is it ? Many thanks in advance, Aaron -- 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/