The patch titled Whinge in paging_init if noexec is on with a non-PAE kernel has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is whinge-in-paging_init-if-noexec-is-on-with-a-non-pae-kernel.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Whinge in paging_init if noexec is on with a non-PAE kernel From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/mm/init.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/i386/mm/init.c~whinge-in-paging_init-if-noexec-is-on-with-a-non-pae-kernel arch/i386/mm/init.c --- a/arch/i386/mm/init.c~whinge-in-paging_init-if-noexec-is-on-with-a-non-pae-kernel +++ a/arch/i386/mm/init.c @@ -512,6 +512,9 @@ void __init paging_init(void) set_nx(); if (nx_enabled) printk("NX (Execute Disable) protection: active\n"); +#else + if (!disable_nx) + printk("NX (Execute Disable) only supported with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G\n"); #endif pagetable_init(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kyle@xxxxxxxxxx are whinge-in-paging_init-if-noexec-is-on-with-a-non-pae-kernel.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html