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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [INFO] ratio of const vs dynamic usercopy
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:19:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160920141902.qgz7efgdzanpqsys@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160920045839.GA139098@beast>

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:58:39PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Al had asked me a couple weeks back what the ratio of const vs dynamic
> usercopying was. With Josh's cleanup and my fix-up to only call the
> hardened usercopy when non-const, I can actually gather these statistics
> on a build. It's a bit of a hack (see attached patch that should not go
> into the tree), but with my not-very-defconfig, it's rougly 2 to 1 const
> vs dynamic.  However, this doesn't take into account the frequency at
> _runtime_, which maybe could be discovered via perf comparing copy*user()
> calls to __check_object_size() calls, but I didn't try that. Does someone
> have perf setup to check this?

Maybe do something like this with your patch?

  trace-cmd record -p function -l __check_object_size -l __skip_check_object_size [command you want to benchmark]
  trace-cmd report

-- 
Josh

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-20 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-20  4:58 Kees Cook
2016-09-20  5:48 ` kbuild test robot
2016-09-20 23:17   ` Kees Cook
2016-09-21  2:31     ` Fengguang Wu
2016-09-21  2:41       ` Kees Cook
2016-09-20 14:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2016-09-21  0:31   ` Kees Cook
2016-09-21  1:00     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-21  5:36 ` kbuild test robot

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