12/09/2006 09:03 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote/a écrit:
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 02:34:47PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
I have filed this as a distro bug with Ubuntu; it may be their issue, I
haven't dug deep enough to find out. I am posting this here to disperse
the information breadth-first instead of depth-first, which will shorten
the bug's life cycle if it turns out to be an upstream bug.
NX requires the 64-bit page table entries (ie, PAE) which requires
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G.
Somehow there is a problem: a user can explicitly put "noexec=on" and it
will be silently ignored if the kernel doesn't have PAE support. I guess
that currently no message is written because "noexec=on" is the
_default_. Still, it would be fair to the user who added "noexec=on" on
its command line that if it is not respected, either because the
hardware doesn't support it or because the kernel doesn't support it, we
display a warning saying it's hopeless.
I'll send a patch if it seems meaningful to you,
c u
Eric
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