Re: [linus:master] [fortify] 239d87327d: vm-scalability.throughput 17.3% improvement

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Jan 09 2025 - 11:51:54 EST


On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 02:57:58PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> kernel test robot noticed a 17.3% improvement of vm-scalability.throughput on:
>
> commit: 239d87327dcd361b0098038995f8908f3296864f ("fortify: Hide run-time copy size from value range tracking")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master

Well that is unexpected. There should be no binary output difference
with that patch. I will investigate...

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Kees Cook