Re: Concerns about SFrame viability for userspace stack walking
Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:31:38 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-toolchains,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-perf-users |
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On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 06:07:49PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 10:53:13AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > IMNSHO the whole sframe effort is misguided because all the major ISAs do have > > shadow stack hardware support now which is generally a better option. > > It would be better to invest effort in deploying that widely. > > It's going to take a *considerable* time for the hardware support to > become standard. Optimizing for the past instead of the future? Not on x86 at least. All my x86 systems have it, except for a few old skylakes. -Andi