On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:48:35AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > In general the .data protection is only considered a debugging
> > > feature. I don't know why Fedora enables it in their production
> > > kernels.
> >
> > That would be because we think you are wrong 8)
>
> Well, it might at best buy you a few weeks/months in
> terms of the exploit arms race, but thrash your user's TLBs
> forever.
Show me a single situation where this matters.
When we first enabled, we tried both benchmarks and real-world
loads, and it didn't matter at all. Unless something fundamental
has changed since then, the story should still be the same.
Dave
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