On 04/12/2014 02:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:44 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Run a 32-bit VM. The 32-bit kernel does this right. > > I really don't think that's the answer. > > If people really run these 16-bit programs, we need to allow it. > Clearly it used to work. > > Just make the unconditional "don't allow 16-bit segments" be a sysconf entry. > Well, is there more than one user, really... that's my question. But yes, we can make it configurable, but the default should almost certainly be off. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html