Re: [PATCH] NX protection for kernel data : fix 32 bits S3 suspend

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, February 14, 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 11:59 AM, castet.matthieu@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > For .39 I hope we could remove most of the RWX rights after init (This means
> > make low memory trampoline NX or !RW).
> 
> By the way, I think this is the wrong goal.  I think we should have
> things enabled at their lowest permission level *as early as possible*.
>  The current model of tightening down permissions late in the boot is
> really the wrong model.

FWIW, I agree.

Rafael
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