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Re: [PATCH 5/8] x86/arch_prctl/64: Remove FSBASE/GSBASE < 4G optimization

From Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 5/8] x86/arch_prctl/64: Remove FSBASE/GSBASE < 4G optimization
Date 2016-04-26 23:00 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:23:28PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> As far as I know, the optimization doesn't work on any modern distro
> because modern distros use high addresses for ASLR.  Remove it.

I disagree with this patch. For example it will be a regression
for static executables.  And randomly making old systems slower is a bad
idea.

-Andi

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[PATCH 5/8] x86/arch_prctl/64: Remove FSBASE/GSBASE < 4G optimization Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 21:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 5/8] x86/arch_prctl/64: Remove FSBASE/GSBASE < 4G  optimization Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-04-26 23:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 5/8] x86/arch_prctl/64: Remove FSBASE/GSBASE < 4G optimization Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-04-27 00:40 +0200

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