[PATCH maverick] UBUNTU: SAUCE: nx-emu: further clarify dmesg reporting

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Apr 1 14:38:34 UTC 2011


On 03/30/2011 05:06 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> When booting a 32bit non-PAE kernel on a CPU that supports hardware NX,
> dmesg did not indicate that NX emulation was being used. This changes
> the dmesg reporting to be more clear. Warnings about lacking hardware
> NX remain, and the state of NX-emulation is reported when enabled.
>
> (Backported from Natty patch.)
>
> BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/745181
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook<kees.cook at canonical.com>
> ---
>   arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c |   28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
>   1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>

Kees - the Maverick portion of the bug still needs the SRU Justification.

applied, pushed.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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