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Subject: Re: Slowdown with randomize_va_space in 2.6.12.2
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Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > > On Transmeta CPUs that probably triggers a retranslation of
>  > > x86->native bytecode, if it thinks it hasn't seen code at that
>  > > address before.
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > ouch.   What do we do?  Default to off?  Default to off on xmeta?
> 
>  off-on-xmeta would be my preference; I'll cook up a patch for that.

Well we seem to have several people reporting problems of various sorts
with that patch?