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Issue 2662883002: Roll AFL 2.31b:2.38b and switch coverage to use trace-pc-guard. (Closed)
Patch Set: Remove unneeded vuln_samples binaries. Created 3 years, 11 months ago
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diff --git a/third_party/afl/src/docs/perf_tips.txt b/third_party/afl/src/docs/perf_tips.txt
index 0821b0299c545af90ecf6f0948b6f6bb4756c9f5..3a8997a22f0e570af6e8856b065e565bd851d0de 100644
--- a/third_party/afl/src/docs/perf_tips.txt
+++ b/third_party/afl/src/docs/perf_tips.txt
@@ -167,6 +167,12 @@ There are several OS-level factors that may affect fuzzing speed:
On other systems, the impact of CPU scaling will be different; when fuzzing,
use OS-specific tools to find out if all cores are running at full speed.
+ - Transparent huge pages. Some allocators, such as jemalloc, can incur a
+ heavy fuzzing penalty when transparent huge pages (THP) are enabled in the
+ kernel. You can disable this via:
+
+ echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
+
- Suboptimal scheduling strategies. The significance of this will vary from
one target to another, but on Linux, you may want to make sure that the
following options are set:
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