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Message-Id: <20190531181832.e7c3888870ce9e50db9f69e6@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 18:18:32 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] mm: init: report memory auto-initialization
 features at boot time

On Wed, 29 May 2019 14:38:11 +0200 Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com> wrote:

> Print the currently enabled stack and heap initialization modes.
> 
> The possible options for stack are:
>  - "all" for CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL;
>  - "byref_all" for CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL;
>  - "byref" for CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF;
>  - "__user" for CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_USER;
>  - "off" otherwise.
> 
> Depending on the values of init_on_alloc and init_on_free boottime
> options we also report "heap alloc" and "heap free" as "on"/"off".

Why?

Please fully describe the benefit to users so that others can judge the
desirability of the patch.  And so they can review it effectively, etc.

Always!

> In the init_on_free mode initializing pages at boot time may take some
> time, so print a notice about that as well.

How much time?

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