Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:42:23 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
       Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com>,
       Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:20:31PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> 
> > *THIS* is the kind of complexity that makes me think that having a 
> > single source for all interpretation done in the kernel is the 
> > preferred option.
> 
> Definitely agreed ... The NX code is quite a maze right now, so changes 
> to it should come generously laced with cleanups.

BTW, I don't see why we should be impacted by NX. Trying to
execute from an NX page would return a SEGV, not SIGILL, so
we should not be bothered, am I wrong ?

Willy

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