Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Oct 2020 10:32:05 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Clean up x86_32 stackprotector |
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 07:10:39PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 3:30 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > x86_32 stackprotector is a maintenance nightmare. Clean it up. This > > disables stackprotector on x86_32 on GCC 8.1 and on all clang > > versions -- I'll file a bug for the latter. > > This should be doable on 64-bit too. All that would need to be done > is to remove the zero-base of the percpu segment (which would simplify > alot of other code).
Like what?
I don't think it'd be hard to do, but I really don't see it doing anything other than make things confusing as heck.
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