On Wed 2013-02-06 16:28:08, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 02/01/2013 02:25 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Ouch, and... IIRC (hpa should know for sure), PAE is neccessary for > > R^X support on x86, thus getting more common, not less. If it does not > > work, that's bad news. > > Dare I ask what "R^X" is? Read xor Execute, aka NX.... support for executable but not readable pages. Usefull for making exploits harder iirc. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>