Re: [PATCH 0/3] MIPS executable stack protection

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sat Oct 04 2014 - 04:23:47 EST


On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:17:14PM -0700, Leonid Yegoshin wrote:
> The following series implements an executable stack protection in MIPS.
>
> It sets up a per-thread 'VDSO' page and appropriate TLB support.

So traditionally we've always avoided per-thread pages like that. What
makes it worth it on MIPS?
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