Re: [patch 0/5] Support for sanitization flag in low-level pageallocator

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sat May 30 2009 - 19:15:34 EST


> Obviously the argument is best settled by measurements. Done by
> whoever wants to push this code.

How do you measure security as a mathematical quantity in a benchtest ?

In terms of performance its pretty easy to stick a counter in kzfree in
2.6.30-rc. The number that comes up is very very low.

Alan
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