On 06/27, Kees Cook wrote: > > It looks like SMP ARM issues dsb for rmb, which seems a bit expensive. > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0204g/CIHJFGFE.htm > > ... > > I really want to avoid adding anything to the secure_computing() > execution path. :(
I must have missed something but I do not understand your concerns. __secure_computing() is not trivial, and we are going to execute the filters. Do you really think rmb() can add the noticeable difference? Not to mention that we can only get here if we take the slow syscall enter path due to TIF_SECCOMP... Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
