Re: NonExecutable Bit in 32Bit

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On 4/25/07, Tuncer Ayaz <[email protected]> wrote:
On 4/25/07, Cestonaro, Thilo (external)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> > CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
> > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
> > CONFIG_X86_PAE=y
>
> Ok in highmem it's active, whats about lowmem?
> x86-64 is NX active for lowmem too AFAIK.

It's more of an issue of having PAE enabled.
Without PAE you are not able to use the the NX bit.
That's the way the CPU works, not Linux.

Forgot to add:
from arch/i386/Kconfig:
config X86_PAE
	bool
	depends on HIGHMEM64G
	default y
	select RESOURCES_64BIT

Hope this helps.

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