On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 11:01, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 11:32:07PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote: > > From: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > This patch makes /proc/kallsyms display in a random order, rather > > than sorted by address in order to hide the newly randomized address > > layout. > > Is there a reason to not always do this? That is, why are we keeping two > copies of this code around? Less code is more better etc.. +1. IIRC I made the exact same point when this patch was sent out by Kristen a while ago.