On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 21:33 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I'm wondering if we shouldn't just kill the affected CPUID bits if osxsave is > off...
Yes, I considered clearing AVX bit (and any future xsave feature bits) as part of the parsing "noxsave" parameter in x86_xsave_setup(). But thought checking for osxsave was more explicit and there are not many places using avx code. Also, this follows the SDM guidelines and sets a nice precedent for someone (app's) to follow in future. I am ok either way! thanks, suresh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
