To NX or not to NX
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Mon Jan 1 18:17:31 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 16:56 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Looking through dmesg on my laptop, I noticed the following:
>
> Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
>
> While this is certainly nice, the processor is quite capable of real
> NX:
[snip]
> Is there a reason this is not used?
Unfortunately, you have to use a PAE kernel to use real NX :(
Jeremy
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