[SRU][jammy:linux-aws][PATCH 0/1] arm64: pauth: don't sign leaf functions
Kevin Becker
kevin.becker at canonical.com
Fri Feb 2 21:22:18 UTC 2024
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2043811
[Impact]
Amazon sent the following request: From our experiments, we found that not
signing leaf functions on AWS arm64 Graviton instances helps improve
application performance. We would like to have the patch
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c68cf5285e1896a2b725ec01a1351f08610165b8
backported to Ubuntu 5.15 AWS kernels. We saw some of these performance
improvements: NGINX 1%, MySQL 2%, PyTorch 2%
[Test Plan]
Amazon has tested on AWS.
[Regression Potential]
Arm64 binaries may not work correctly.
[Other Info]
SF: #00372369
Kevin Becker (1):
arm64: pauth: don't sign leaf functions
arch/arm64/Makefile | 22 ++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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2.40.1
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