On Thu, 27 Mar, at 03:10:38PM, Ricardo Neri wrote: > It may be possible that EFI firmware wants to use the FPU. Thus, in such a > case, > the kernel EFI runtime services need to make sure that they save and restore > the > FPU context. > > Additionally, several FPU internal functions require alternatives to be in > place > when running. Some of the FPU context save/restore instances that this series > implements may occur early during boot; before the alternatives have run. > Several FPU internal functions are updated to use the alternatives-safe > variant > of static_cpu_has. The performance penalty is negligible as the impacted > functions are not performance-critical. > > In order to prepare to implement the FPU context save/restore, this series > also > reworks many of the efi_call macros. The code will also be more readable and > continue to be reusable between x86_64 and i386.
Thanks Ricardo, I've picked these up. I'll merge them into my 'next' branch once the merge window closes. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
