[PATCH] disable addres space randomization default on transmeta CPUs
authorEric Lammerts <eric@lammerts.org>
Mon, 1 Aug 2005 05:34:42 +0000 (22:34 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Tue, 2 Aug 2005 02:13:59 +0000 (19:13 -0700)
We know that the randomisation slows down some workloads on Transmeta CPUs
by quite large amounts.  We think it's because the CPU needs to recode the
same x86 instructions when they pop up at a different virtual address after
a fork+exec.

So disable randomization by default on those CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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