Hello, I have a question regarding the AIX -bnorwexec linker flag . I think it is related to an AIX security feature SED , see also : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_71/com.ibm.aix.securi... When building with the additional -bnorwexec linker flag we signal the OS that we "request" the SED feature . Please compare a patched and an unpatched java ( patched is flagged "request" while unpatched uses the "system" setting ). bash-4.3$ sedmgr -d /patched_jdk/images/jdk/bin/java /patched_jdk/images/images/jdk/bin/java : request bash-4.3$ sedmgr -d /normal_jdk/images/jdk/bin/java /normal_jdk/images/jdk/bin/java : system System config on the example machine is "normal" (default) select : bash-4.3$ sedmgr Stack Execution Disable (SED) mode: select SED configured in kernel: select In our internal tests I noticed so far no issues when setting the -bnorwexec linker flag in OpenJDK on AIX . Do you have any experience with it, do you see issues when setting the flag ? The documentation of the flag is a bit short . https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_72/com.ibm.aix.cmds3/... norwexec Specifies that if the system's sed_config setting is not off, the process' private data areas will have non-execute permission. Patch would be : diff -r 0d7fb7f07134 make/autoconf/flags-ldflags.m4 --- a/make/autoconf/flags-ldflags.m4 Mon Apr 08 06:56:37 2019 +0100 +++ b/make/autoconf/flags-ldflags.m4 Mon Apr 08 10:50:07 2019 +0200 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # -# Copyright (c) 2011, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. +# Copyright (c) 2011, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. # DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. # # This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ BASIC_LDFLAGS_JVM_ONLY="-library=%none -mt -z noversion" elif test "x$TOOLCHAIN_TYPE" = xxlc; then - BASIC_LDFLAGS="-b64 -brtl -bnolibpath -bexpall -bernotok -btextpsize:64K \ + BASIC_LDFLAGS="-b64 -brtl -bnorwexec -bnolibpath -bexpall -bernotok -btextpsize:64K \ -bdatapsize:64K -bstackpsize:64K" # libjvm.so has gotten too large for normal TOC size; compile with qpic=large and link with bigtoc BASIC_LDFLAGS_JVM_ONLY="-Wl,-lC_r -bbigtoc" Best regards, Matthias