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Re: [Xen-devel] x86: PIE support and option to extend KASLR randomization
- To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>, Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:38:05 -0700
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On 09/22/17 09:32, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> BTW., I think things improved with ORC because with ORC we have RBP as an
> extra
> register and with PIE we lose RBX - so register pressure in code generation
> is
> lower.
>
We lose EBX on 32 bits, but we don't lose RBX on 64 bits - since x86-64
has RIP-relative addressing there is no need for a dedicated PIC register.
I'm somewhat confused how we can have as much as almost 1% overhead. I
suspect that we end up making a GOT and maybe even a PLT for no good reason.
-hpa
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