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SubjectRe: [CFT] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages
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ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
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> Do you know what code had problems having _PAGE_NX set.
> What are we doing with early_ioremap the requires execute
> permissions. It doesn't sound right that we would need
> this.

The early EM64T CPUs didn't support NX and would GPF when
they hit the bit. That is why you always need to mask
with __supported_pte_mask when using _PAGE_NX.

-Andi
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