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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	 Carol Bouchard <cbouchar@redhat.com>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	bug-m4@gnu.org,
	 "austin-group-l@opengroup.org" <austin-group-l@opengroup.org>
Subject: Re: SIGSTKSZ is now a run-time variable
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 13:05:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOrYmwXSa-OTMzK_Lv2tsSngEWA6zpGm52dsNwOh6fXa6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13030663.F5dv5Vxd0a@omega>

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:27 PM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
>
> Eric Blake wrote:
> > I can open a defect against POSIX if we decide that is needed, but want
> > some consensus first on whether it is glibc's change that went too far,
> > or POSIX's requirements that are too restrictive for what glibc wants to do.
>
> Thanks for opening the discussion, Eric.
>
> Here are a couple of questions, to understand the motivation and the possible
> alternative solutions to the problem:
>
> 1) As far as I understand, the issue occurs with certain x86 or x86_64
>    processors.
>
>    1.1) What has been the value of MINSIGSTKSZ on x86 and x86_64 so far?

It is 2048 bytes in glibc 2.32.

>    1.2) What value of MINSIGSTKSZ is needed for AVX-512F support?

For i686, it is 3628 bytes.   For x86-64, it is 3212 bytes.

>    1.3) Will the trend to larger MINSIGSTKSZ values continue for Intel
>         processors?

With 8 1K Tile registers, we need another 8K.   I can't tell you how big
we will need in 10 years.

-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-09 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1841269.IEpri3ZHvQ@omega>
2021-03-09 15:23 ` Eric Blake
2021-03-09 15:26   ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-09 15:48     ` Eric Blake
2021-03-09 19:58       ` Bruno Haible
2021-03-09 21:05         ` H.J. Lu [this message]
     [not found]         ` <20210309211735.GW19922@dragon.sl.home>
2021-03-16 19:46           ` Carol Bouchard
2021-03-26 12:46             ` Carol Bouchard
2021-03-09 15:46   ` Zack Weinberg
     [not found] <832918739.1734727.1615306471320.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2021-03-09 16:14 ` shwaresyst
2021-03-09 19:33   ` Paul Eggert
2021-03-09 19:34   ` Eric Blake
2021-03-09 20:12     ` Eric Blake
     [not found] <1569476484.1894162.1615325397167.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2021-03-09 21:29 ` shwaresyst
2021-03-09 23:58   ` H.J. Lu

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