Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 5:25 PM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote:
No, I think the overhead of the strong stackprotector is a bit sad, but I assume it's because of the nasty code to load the stack canary from a cacheline that has absolutely nothing else in it. from a cacheline that has absolutely nothing else in it. Oh well.
Oh well.
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Do you have interest in some other comparison?No, I think the overhead of the strong stackprotector is a bit sad, but I assume it's because of the nasty code to load the stack canary from a cacheline that has absolutely nothing else in it. from a cacheline that has absolutely nothing else in it. Oh well.
Oh well.
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