Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/i386: Make sure stack-protector segment baseis cache aligned

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/04/2009 09:04 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Ideally we'd like to get rid of the constant offset too.  If we could
> change it to %[fg]s:__gcc_stack_canary_offset on both 32-bit and 64-bit,
> it would give us a lot more flexibility.  __gcc_stack_canary_offset
> could be weakly defined to 20/40 for backwards compatibility, but we
> could override it to point to a normal percpu variable.
> 

Yes, although that definitely means starting the gcc pipeline from scratch.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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