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Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 05:55:38 -0700
From: "Larry H." <research@subreption.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] Support for sanitization flag in low-level page
	allocator
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Hi Pavel,

> This should not be configurable. Runtime config, defaulting to
> 'sanitize' may make some sense, but... better just be secure.

We've since moved to an unconditional page sanitization approach,
enabled via boot option. Check out the latest patches in the thread,
don't bother checking the initial page flag ones since there's no
intention to follow that path for now.

Thanks for taking a look.

	Larry