Re: [PATCH v6 00/15] x86-64: Stack protector and percpu improvements

[Ingo Molnar]

* Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Thank you for doing this series - it all looks pretty good from my 
> > side and I've applied it experimentally to tip:x86/asm. I fixed up 
> > the trivial details other reviewers and me noticed.
> >
> > Note that the merge is tentative, it might still need a rebase if 
> > some fundamental problem comes up - but let's see how testing goes 
> > in -next.
> 
> I wonder if there would be any benefit if stack canary is put into 
> struct pcpu_hot?

It should definitely be one of the hottest data structures on x86, so 
moving it there makes sense even if it cannot be measured explicitly.

Thanks,

	Ingo