Re: [PATCH v8 07/14] kallsyms: Hide layout

[Peter Zijlstra]

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..