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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 5/21/21 3:07 PM, Len Brown wrote: > My concern about synchronous allocation is that it will be very easy > to abuse. programs and threads can ask for buffers they will never > use. With on-demand allocation, we allocate buffers only if they are > actually needed. If someone wants to abuse the on-demand allocation, they will simply write a single bit to an AMX register. That does *NOT* mean they will actually execute an instruction that actually uses AMX to do something meaningful. In the face of abuse, I think the two approaches are very similar.