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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	"Liu, Jing2" <jing2.liu@intel.com>,
	"Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Documentation List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 22/22] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce boot-parameters to control state component support
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:17:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210326181641.GD27507@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJvTdK=_G11phL6=9Ri41fJQvhRNopok_oktgvRjTM0v6ojcbg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 01:53:47PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> At Dave's suggestion, we had a 64 *KB* sanity check on this path.
> Boris forced us to remove it, because we could not tell him
> how we chose the number 64.

The only 64 I can remember is

#define XSTATE_BUFFER_MAX_BYTES              (64 * 1024)

What does an arbitrary number have to do with signal handling and
pushing a fat frame on the sigaltstack?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-26 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20210221185637.19281-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
2021-02-21 18:56 ` [PATCH v4 22/22] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce boot-parameters to control state component support Chang S. Bae
2021-02-21 19:30   ` Randy Dunlap
2021-02-21 20:10     ` Bae, Chang Seok
2021-02-21 20:37       ` Randy Dunlap
2021-03-20 20:56   ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-03-25 22:59     ` Len Brown
2021-03-25 23:10       ` Dave Hansen
2021-03-26 15:27         ` Len Brown
2021-03-26 19:22           ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-03-26  1:41       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-26 15:33         ` Len Brown
2021-03-26 15:48           ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-26 17:53             ` Len Brown
2021-03-26 18:12               ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-03-27  4:53                 ` Len Brown
2021-03-27 22:20                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-03-29 13:31                     ` Len Brown
2021-03-29 14:10                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-03-26 18:17               ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2021-03-27  4:41                 ` Len Brown
2021-03-26  1:50       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-03-26 15:36         ` Len Brown

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