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From:   Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:25:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: Candidate Linux ABI for Intel AMX and hypothetical new related features
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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        Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 8:17 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> I'm fine with that as long the kernel has a way to detect that and can
> kill the offending application/library combo with an excplicit
> -SIG_NICE_TRY.

Agreed.  The new run-time check for altsigstack overflow is one place
we can do that.
Let me know if you think of others,

thanks,
Len Brown,
Intel Open Source Technology Center