Re: Concerns about SFrame viability for userspace stack walking

Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:57:25 +0100

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:31:38AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Not on x86 at least. All my x86 systems have it, except for a few old
> skylakes.

About half of my systems have CET, but I just checked, none of them
seem to actually use userspace shadow stacks.

AFAICT Debian hasn't build their packages with this stuff on.

But yeah, thanks for reminding me, we should definitely build a shstk
unwinder.