From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Bae, Chang Seok" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>,
Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Candidate Linux ABI for Intel AMX and hypothetical new related features
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:28:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJvTdK=Lqbzy6bs8qiE8MZ5LSzyZJ-FMUTcNPD4MxYJGEMBW3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E8BCA270-4F23-4E1B-BAD6-917DBE36F5F6@amacapital.net>
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:53 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> But this whole annotation thing will require serious compiler support.
> We already have problems with compilers inlining functions and getting confused about attributes.
We added compiler annotation for user-level interrupt handlers.
I'm not aware of it failing, or otherwise being confused.
Why would compiler support for fast-signals be any more "serious"?
> An API like:
>
> if (get_amx()) {
> use AMX;
> } else {
> don’t;
> }
>
> Avoids this problem. And making XCR0 dynamic, for all its faults, at least helps force a degree of discipline on user code.
dynamic XCR0 breaks the installed base, I thought we had established that.
We've also established that when running in a VMM, every update to
XCR0 causes a VMEXIT.
I thought the goal was to allow new programs to have fast signal handlers.
By default, those fast signal handlers would have a stable state
image, and would
not inherit large architectural state on their stacks, and could thus
have minimal overhead on all hardware.
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2021-03-26 23:18 ` Candidate Linux ABI for Intel AMX and hypothetical new related features Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-27 3:39 ` Len Brown
2021-03-27 9:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-27 9:58 ` Greg KH
2021-03-29 15:47 ` Len Brown
2021-03-29 16:38 ` Len Brown
2021-03-29 16:48 ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-29 18:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-29 18:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-29 22:38 ` Len Brown
2021-03-30 5:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-30 5:50 ` Noah Goldstein
2021-03-30 17:01 ` Len Brown
2021-03-30 17:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-30 17:56 ` Len Brown
2021-03-30 19:12 ` Dave Hansen
2021-03-30 20:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-30 20:42 ` Len Brown
2021-03-30 22:01 ` David Laight
2021-03-31 16:31 ` Len Brown
2021-03-31 16:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-31 21:42 ` Robert O'Callahan
2021-03-31 22:11 ` Len Brown
2021-03-31 22:28 ` Len Brown [this message]
2021-03-31 22:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-09 20:52 ` Len Brown
2021-04-09 21:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-11 19:07 ` Len Brown
2021-04-12 7:59 ` David Laight
2021-04-12 12:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-12 17:14 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-03-31 22:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-09 20:55 ` Len Brown
2021-03-28 0:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-03-29 7:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 15:06 ` Dave Hansen
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2021-05-17 9:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 9:56 ` Florian Weimer
2021-05-17 10:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 16:29 ` Len Brown
2021-05-17 13:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2021-05-20 15:35 ` Len Brown
2021-05-20 20:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-20 21:13 ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-20 21:41 ` Len Brown
2021-05-20 22:53 ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-21 9:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 14:44 ` Florian Weimer
2021-05-21 14:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-23 15:06 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-23 23:11 ` Len Brown
2021-06-28 10:14 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-28 12:49 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-30 12:22 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-30 12:41 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-06-30 13:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2021-06-30 15:20 ` Len Brown
2021-06-30 15:25 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-05-21 16:14 ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-21 16:19 ` Florian Weimer
2021-05-21 16:26 ` Len Brown
2021-05-21 16:28 ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-21 16:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-05-21 19:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 20:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-05-21 21:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 22:07 ` Len Brown
2021-05-21 22:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 23:31 ` Len Brown
2021-05-22 7:16 ` Florian Weimer
2021-05-22 23:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-05-21 23:06 ` Dave Hansen
2021-05-21 23:08 ` Len Brown
2021-05-21 19:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-20 21:22 ` Len Brown
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