On 07/05/2019 10:55, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 5/6/19 1:46 PM, Eslam Elnikety wrote:
>> Give the administrator further control on when to scrub domheap pages by 
>> adding
>> an option to always scrub. This is a safety feature that, when enabled,
>> prevents a (buggy) domain from leaking secrets if it accidentally frees a 
>> page
>> without proper scrubbing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eslam Elnikety <[email protected]>
> Now that I think about it -- Andy, isn't there a patch in the XenServer
> patchqueue to enable scrubbing by default?
>
> I'm wondering if this should default to 'true', and people who really
> want the extra performance should turn it off.

https://github.com/xenserver/xen.pg/blob/XS-8.0.x/master/0001-cc-memory-scrubbing.patch

We couldn't measure a performance difference with unconditional
scrubbing, so chose to do without an extra parameter to tweak.

~Andrew

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