Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH for 2.6.18rc2] [1/7] i386/x86-64: Don't randomize stack top when... | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:48:54 +0200 |
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> > > the 8K was what Intel proposed for 2.4 quite a while ago and has been in > > > use in linux for years and years... Can you explain why you are saying > > > 7Kb? throwing away that 1Kb of cache associativity is unfortunate and > > > shouldn't be done unless there's a good reason, so I'm quite interested > > > in finding out your reason ;) > > > > Well that's what the Intel IA-32 optimization manual says: > > The reason I allowed to disable it is that it is sometimes very useful > for debugging if you can get 100% reproducible addresses.
that I fully agree with; if you say as user "hey I don't care about anything but give me no randomization" we should give the user no randomization.
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