Re: [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Jan 21 2014 - 09:18:49 EST


On 01/21/2014 06:14 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Ah, I didn't mean to suggest that it's an old upstream feature: what I
> mean is that the KASLR patch is pretty old, and it has been deployed
> by the Chromium guys for quite some time, and by others?
>
> It was just never combined with perf live annotation which is a recent
> perf feature.
>

Ah, right. Parallel convergence.

> Anyway ... I suspect it's the fixing of the bug that matters most, not
> its genealogy ;)

Indeed.

-hpa


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