32 bit userland on G5

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Wed Jun 14 08:44:59 EST 2006


Johannes Berg writes:

> Since apparently the G5 honours no-execute permissions, shouldn't the 64
> bit kernel set the READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality flag for 32-bit
> userland?

The elf_read_implies_exec() macro in include/asm-powerpc/elf.h
achieves the same effect, I believe.

Paul.



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