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authorSteven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>2014-03-28 17:19:02 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-03-31 20:16:02 +0100
commit63678e17cf399ff81b93417fe7bee8d6ef6b6b1b (patch)
tree85c035792e228efd51594b60d7c6f345adf1b9a8 /qemu-img.c
parent58b590148ca1b19f64f533d40e32b5acce5c21e7 (diff)
configure: add option to disable -fstack-protector flags
The -fstack-protector flag family is useful for ensuring safety and for debugging, but has a performance impact. Here are some boot time comparisons of the various versions of -fstack-protector using qemu-system-arm on an x86_64 host: # -fstack-protector-all Startup finished in 1.810s (kernel) + 12.331s (initrd) + 49.016s (userspace) = 1min 3.159s Startup finished in 1.801s (kernel) + 12.287s (initrd) + 47.925s (userspace) = 1min 2.013s Startup finished in 1.812s (kernel) + 12.302s (initrd) + 47.995s (userspace) = 1min 2.111s # -fstack-protector-strong Startup finished in 1.744s (kernel) + 11.223s (initrd) + 44.688s (userspace) = 57.657s Startup finished in 1.721s (kernel) + 11.222s (initrd) + 44.194s (userspace) = 57.138s Startup finished in 1.693s (kernel) + 11.250s (initrd) + 44.426s (userspace) = 57.370s # -fstack-protector Startup finished in 1.705s (kernel) + 11.409s (initrd) + 43.563s (userspace) = 56.677s Startup finished in 1.877s (kernel) + 11.137s (initrd) + 43.719s (userspace) = 56.734s Startup finished in 1.708s (kernel) + 11.141s (initrd) + 43.628s (userspace) = 56.478s # no stack protector Startup finished in 1.743s (kernel) + 11.190s (initrd) + 43.709s (userspace) = 56.643s Startup finished in 1.763s (kernel) + 11.216s (initrd) + 43.767s (userspace) = 56.747s Startup finished in 1.711s (kernel) + 11.283s (initrd) + 43.878s (userspace) = 56.873s This patch introduces a configure option to disable the stack protector entirely, and conditional stack protector flag selection (in order, based on availability): -fstack-protector-strong, -fstack-protector-all, no stack protector. Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <snoonan@amazon.com> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> [Prefer -fstack-protector-all to -fstack-protector, suggested by Laurent Desnogues. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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