Re: [PATCH] mm/x86: AMD Bulldozer ASLR fix

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 01:14:48PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> It's not a bug, it's a feature: to work around a Bulldozer cache
> aliasing performance problem we have to keep bits 12,13,14 equal for
> all mappings in the system.
>
> Your patch improves upon that fix: by per-boot randomizing the
> constant portion of the randomized range.

I have this one on the TODO list for today, I'll take care of those
formulations when applying.

> Btw., does anyone know how relevant the performance fix is these days?
> A simpler improvement would be to remove the workaround altogether and
> recover proper randomization of bits 12,13,14.

Nothing has changed with that respect in F15h, i.e. Bulldozer uarch. I
think we still need this workaround in place.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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