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SubjectRe: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2

* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> the _GPL export of vmalloc_exec is silly, it's a trivial __vmalloc
> wrapper and __vmalloc is exported. You might be better of just
> killing it anyway, I don't see much use for it outside module support.

ok, agreed.

> apropos modules, in SuSE's 2.4 kernels Andi had a nice optimization to
> not use vmalloc if we could get high enough order allocations, might
> be worth ressurecting that.

yeah, this might make sense.

Ingo
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