Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 4 authors, 2019-12-17

Re: [PATCH V2 00/13] powerpc/vas: Page fault handling for user space NX requests

From: Segher Boessenkool <hidden>
Date: 2019-12-09 08:38:47
Also in: linux-devicetree

Hi!

On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 06:37:09AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
What do you mean by NX ?
It is the Power9 "Nest Accelerator".  The patch series should ideally
mention that right at the start, yeah.
Up to now, NX has been standing for No-eXecute. That's a bit in segment 
registers on book3s/32 to forbid executing code.
That bit is called just N fwiw (and not really specific to 32-bit -- on
64-bit implementations it was part of segment table entries, and of SLB
entries on newer machines).


Segher
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