[PATCH v2 2/2] initmem: introduce CONFIG_INIT_ALL_HEAP

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:43 AM Laura Abbott <labbott at redhat.com> wrote:
> I've looked at doing something similar in the past (failing to find
> the thread this morning...) and while this will work, it has pretty
> serious performance issues. It's not actually the poisoning which
> is expensive but that turning on debugging removes the cpu slab
> which has significant performance penalties.
>
> I'd rather go back to the proposal of just poisoning the slab
> at alloc/free without using SLAB_POISON.

I still agree this would make the most sense. Fundamentally it's not a
debugging feature.

-- 
Kees Cook