[PATCH v2] use -fstack-protector-strong
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Nov 27 12:55:47 EST 2013
On 11/27/2013 09:54 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> Looks to be 2% for defconfig. That's way better. Shall I send a v3?
>
> Well, it's better than 9%, but still almost an order of magnitude
> higher than the cost is today, and a lot of distros have
> CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y.
>
> So it would be nice to measure how much the instruction count goes up
> in some realistic system-bound test. How much does something like
> kernel/built-in.o increase, as per 'size' output?
>
Do we need CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG?
-hpa
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