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commit fd7eea27a3aed79b63b1726c00bde0d50cf207e2 upstream. With INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN or INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO enabled the kernel will be compiled with -ftrivial-auto-var-init=<...> which causes initialization of stack variables at function entry time. In order to avoid the performance impact that comes with this users can use the "uninitialized" attribute to prevent such initialization. Therefore provide the __uninitialized macro which can be used for cases where INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN or INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO is enabled, but only selected variables should not be initialized. Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205154844.3757121-2-hca@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.