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Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 12:16:39 -0700
From: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
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Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] x86, boot: Implement ASLR for kernel memory
sections (x86_64)
I don't see much difference. I will update the commits on next
iteration with the following:
Kernbench shows almost no difference (-+ less than 1%):
Before:
Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 102.63 (1.2695)
User Time 1034.89 (1.18115)
System Time 87.056 (0.456416)
Percent CPU 1092.9 (13.892)
Context Switches 199805 (3455.33)
Sleeps 97907.8 (900.636)
After:
Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 102.489 (1.10636)
User Time 1034.86 (1.36053)
System Time 87.764 (0.49345)
Percent CPU 1095 (12.7715)
Context Switches 199036 (4298.1)
Sleeps 97681.6 (1031.11)
Hackbench shows 0% difference on average (hackbench 90 repeated 10 times)
attemp,before,after
1,0.076,0.069
2,0.072,0.069
3,0.066,0.066
4,0.066,0.068
5,0.066,0.067
6,0.066,0.069
7,0.067,0.066
8,0.063,0.067
9,0.067,0.065
10,0.068,0.071
average,0.0677,0.0677
Thanks,
Thomas
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 05/02/2016 02:41 PM, Thomas Garnier wrote:
>> -#define __PAGE_OFFSET _AC(0xffff880000000000, UL)
>> +#define __PAGE_OFFSET_BASE _AC(0xffff880000000000, UL)
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY
>> +#define __PAGE_OFFSET page_offset_base
>> +#else
>> +#define __PAGE_OFFSET __PAGE_OFFSET_BASE
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY */
>
> Do you have any data about the performance impact of this change? It's
> not necessary to have it to merge something like this, I'm just curious
> how bad it is.
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