[PATCH] Add Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC for Silvermont

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Fri Dec 11 22:29:00 GMT 2015


> You can opt in in your development environment; equally you can switch
> ASLR off altogether.
> 
> The "realistic workloads" I care about are long-lived network clients
> and servers -- you know, the things for which ASLR is relevant as a
> security measure.

They can opt in. Slow security features such as compiler stack overflow checking
are usually opt-in, not opt-out. This is certainly in the same ballpark,
in some cases likely higher.

-Andi

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