On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 01:43:50 -0400 (EDT), Tixy wrote:
Wikipedia, that font of all wisdom, says of NX [1]
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit
From that same article, the section on the Linux kernel says this:
The support for this feature in the 64-bit mode on x86-64 CPUs was
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 06:45:10AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
Furtherfore, a non-PAE kernel is
useful even on PAE-capable hardware. The main purpose of PAE is to
address memory above 4G. But if the machine has less than 4G of
memory, what does a PAE-capable kernel buy you? PAE-capable
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:52:30 -0400 (EDT), Mirko Parthey wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 06:45:10AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
Furtherfore, a non-PAE kernel is
useful even on PAE-capable hardware. The main purpose of PAE is to
address memory above 4G. But if the machine has less than 4G of
On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 20:44 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:52:30 -0400 (EDT), Mirko Parthey wrote:
One such benefit is that the NX bit (non-executable memory pages)
is only available with 64 bit page table entries, which in turn depend on
PAE mode. This could be an
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