Re: [patch 0/5] Support for sanitization flag in low-level pageallocator

[Alan Cox]

> > performance point of view: we _dont_ want to clear the full stack 
> > page for every kernel thread exiting.
> 
> Burning the stack there is beyond overkill.

Yet most of our historic leaks have been padding bytes in stack based
structures. Your position seems very inconsistent.
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