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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile.
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:31:00
Message-Id: 4D6D8132.50309@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile. by pageexec@freemail.hu
1 On 03/01/2011 03:08 PM, pageexec@××××××××.hu wrote:
2 > On 1 Mar 2011 at 16:52, Marcel Meyer wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Sunday 27 February 2011 17:20:25 Pavel Labushev wrote:
5 >>> 27.02.2011 22:32, "Tóth Attila" :
6 >>> http://grsecurity.net/pipermail/grsecurity/2010-April/001024.html - from
7 >> here:
8 >>
9 >> So if I understand pageexec's mail correctly, using a 32-bit hardened domU-
10 >> kernel is more performant than the 64-variant when using UDEREF?
11 >
12 > i believe xen doesn't/cannot support UDEREF in paravirt mode,
13
14 Confirmed.
15
16 > in HVM mode
17 > i386 should be fine, amd64 should be dead slow.
18
19 In my experience, both are fine. I run hardened x86, hardened amd64 and
20 hardened amd64 nomultilib as domU. The host is OpenSuse 11.3. I have
21 both KERNEXEC and UDEREF on, no noticeable problems.
22
23 KVM is a different story, and I do see slowdown for amd64.
24
25 --
26 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
27 Gentoo Developer

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