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