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> Patch needs a minor modification for a single hunk in order to get it |
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> applied on 3.6.7-hardened to 3.7.0-hardened. MCORE2 has also specified for |
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> X86_ALIGNMENT_16 and X86_P6_NOP, but the patch would not introduce COREI7* |
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> for those options. Also there are two instances of CORE2 in |
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> security/Kconfig. I've applied a modified patch on hardened sources 3.7.0 |
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> and compiled it on two machines using corei7 (E5620) and corei7-avx |
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> (2630QM). Both kernels are seem to do fine, I notice nothing unusual. |
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> However I have to also add, that on the png images mentioned in the git |
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> entry showing the result of the ANOVA analysis I notice only P values over |
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> 0.05, not below. So for me it seems all these optimizations are |
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> non-significant. Despite of the clear tendency, even for core2 compared to |
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> generic_x86. Also I don't see the comparison between core2 and corei7*. |
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> Which would be the most important. Since most users would start changing |
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> from core2 to corei7* and not from generic_x86. Although it's highly |
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> possible, that I'm reading the results wrong. So please confirm. |
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I'm not the author of the patch so I'm not sure how to proceed with |
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this. Which is the correct way to move this forward? |
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- Grant |
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>>> It turns out the extra choices are due to this patch: |
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>>> https://github.com/init6/init_6/blob/master/sys-kernel/geek-sources/files/3.7.1/fix/kernel-37-gcc47-1.patch |
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>>> I'm sorry to have bothered the hardened list with this. - Grant |
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>> Actually looks like a quite interesting patch on the Gentoo spirit of |
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>> letting the user choose an it doesn't imply big changes to the source |
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>> (since only config seems to be changed), have you thought bringing it up |
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>> to the kernel team? I'm CCing them here so they can share what they think. |
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