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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:45:43 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@...oraproject.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] mm/page_poisoning.c: Allow for zero poisoning
Hi!
> By default, page poisoning uses a poison value (0xaa) on free. If this
> is changed to 0, the page is not only sanitized but zeroing on alloc
> with __GFP_ZERO can be skipped as well. The tradeoff is that detecting
> corruption from the poisoning is harder to detect. This feature also
> cannot be used with hibernation since pages are not guaranteed to be
> zeroed after hibernation.
So... this makes kernel harder to debug for performance advantage...?
If so.. how big is the performance advantage?
Pavel
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