Re: NonExecutable Bit in 32Bit

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Apr 25 2007 - 02:56:23 EST


Cestonaro, Thilo (external) wrote:
> Hey,
>
>> CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
>> CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
>> CONFIG_X86_PAE=y
>
> Ok in highmem it's active, whats about lowmem?

It's not highmem vs lowmem, it is that HIGHMEM64G is required for
X86_PAE, which is required for NX support.

> x86-64 is NX active for lowmem too AFAIK.

Good thing, since x86-64 doesn't have highmem (nor does it need it,
since it has enough virtual address space to map all physical address
space and still have left over, like it *should* be.)

-hpa
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