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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>,
	David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Fix bugs and performance of kstack offset randomisation
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20fb97f1-7e50-485a-bdfd-a2901d20ec84@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260119130122.1283821-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com>

On 1/19/26 05:01, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> x86 (AWS Sapphire Rapids):
> +-----------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+
> | Benchmark       | Result Class |   v6.18-rc5 | per-task-prng |
> |                 |              | rndstack-on |               |
> |                 |              |             |               |
> +=================+==============+=============+===============+
> | syscall/getpid  | mean (ns)    |  (R) 13.32% |     (R) 4.60% |
> |                 | p99 (ns)     |  (R) 13.38% |    (R) 18.08% |
> |                 | p99.9 (ns)   |      16.26% |    (R) 19.38% |

Like you noted, this is surprising. This would be a good thing to make
sure it goes in very early after -rc1 and gets plenty of wide testing.

But I don't see any problems with the approach, and the move to common
code looks like a big win as well:

Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-01-19 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-19 13:01 [PATCH v4 0/3] Fix bugs and performance of kstack offset randomisation Ryan Roberts
2026-01-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] randomize_kstack: Maintain kstack_offset per task Ryan Roberts
2026-01-19 16:10   ` Dave Hansen
2026-01-19 16:51     ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-19 16:53       ` Dave Hansen
2026-01-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] prandom: Add __always_inline version of prandom_u32_state() Ryan Roberts
2026-01-28 17:00   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2026-01-28 17:33     ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-28 18:32       ` David Laight
2026-01-30 16:16     ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-01-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] randomize_kstack: Unify random source across arches Ryan Roberts
2026-01-20 23:50   ` kernel test robot
2026-01-21 10:20     ` David Laight
2026-01-21 14:48       ` David Laight
2026-01-21 10:52     ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-21 12:32       ` Mark Rutland
2026-02-18 15:20         ` Ryan Roberts
2026-02-22 21:34   ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-23  9:41     ` David Laight
2026-03-03 14:43     ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-19 16:00 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2026-01-19 16:44   ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Fix bugs and performance of kstack offset randomisation Kees Cook
2026-01-19 16:51     ` Dave Hansen
2026-01-20 16:32     ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-20 16:37       ` Dave Hansen
2026-01-20 16:45         ` Ryan Roberts
2026-01-20 18:45         ` David Laight
2026-01-19 16:25 ` Heiko Carstens

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