One little patch, on an i386 the grsecurity patch checks if something is defined, and either way defines something else. Then it immediately checks if it is NOT defined, and if something ELSE is not defined, and either way sets that same thing. As a result, if grsecurity's PaX settings aren't enabled, you get a few hundred megabytes of warnings spewed to your console. Also, it takes a few seconds on a fast (1.8 Ghz Athlon XP, 512 MB DDR) CPU to trace back the whole include line, so it severely slows down kernel compiles.
Created attachment 14354 [details, diff] chdir to linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5/include/asm-i386 and patch processor.h with this This was diff'd inside linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5/asm-i386/ against processor.h, so apply it accordingly. I didn't make a proper patch I'm sure ;-) But it should work. If it won't apply, open it in vi and look, it shows easy enough what to do. I'm new at this. --Bluefox
pfeifer you maintain the gentoo-sources?
yeah, this needs to be fixed. i'll get it fixed and bump to -r6 with other fixes. i'll have to go through the history to find out how it got in. but, i just want to get it fixed less the unneeded comments in the presented diff. Jay
this seems to be something fixed long ago... closing.
