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@vstinner vstinner commented Mar 11, 2022

In Linux kernel 5.14 one can dynamically request size of altstacksize
based on hardware capabilities with getauxval(AT_MINSIGSTKSZ).

This changes allows for Python extension's request to Linux kernel
to use AMX_TILE instruction set on Sapphire Rapids Xeon processor
to succeed, unblocking use of the ISA in frameworks.

Introduced HAVE_LINUX_AUXVEC_H in configure.ac and pyconfig.h.in
Used cpython_autoconf:269 docker container to generate configure.

(cherry picked from commit 3b128c0)

https://bugs.python.org/issue46968

In Linux kernel 5.14 one can dynamically request size of altstacksize
based on hardware capabilities with getauxval(AT_MINSIGSTKSZ).

This changes allows for Python extension's request to Linux kernel
to use AMX_TILE instruction set on Sapphire Rapids Xeon processor
to succeed, unblocking use of the ISA in frameworks.

Introduced HAVE_LINUX_AUXVEC_H in configure.ac and pyconfig.h.in
Used cpython_autoconf:269 docker container to generate configure.

(cherry picked from commit 3b128c0)
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Thanks @vstinner for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.9.
🐍🍒⛏🤖

@vstinner vstinner deleted the faulthandler310 branch March 11, 2022 23:04
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Sorry @vstinner, I had trouble checking out the 3.9 backport branch.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.
cherry_picker 393e2bf6bc6effbfe821f051a230978f0edd70df 3.9

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