Re: F45 Change Proposal: Enable Shadow Stack by Default on x86_64 (system-wide)

Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
Organization EasyCoding
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/07/2026 18:11, Arjun Shankar wrote:
> We expect the impact to be low since this is a CPU feature. However,
> we do plan to conduct performance testing.

This had to be done before the proposal was published for voting.

> We are exploring other compatibility mechanisms, particularly for
> programs that are still single-threaded when they start dlopen'ing.
> But there is certainly a compatibility cost.

If this results in breaking NVIDIA drivers and other important 
third-party software, then this is absolutely unacceptable.

> Execution on older CPUs without Shadow Stack support is completely
> unaffected in any way.

Any performance impact on these old CPUs?

-- 
Sincerely,
   Vitaly Zaitsev ([email protected])
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