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Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] x86/xsaves: Fix XSAVES known issues

From Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] x86/xsaves: Fix XSAVES known issues
Date 2016-02-25 22:00 +0100
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On 02/25/2016 12:26 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> Patch 9 re-enables XSAVES.

Could we also add one more thing to this: A big, fat warning that
supervisor states are not supported?  We might get that from an eventual
use of xfeature_uncompacted_offset(), but we need something that's very
clear.

I just don't want somebody coming along and shoving a supervisor state
in to XCR0 and expecting it to work just because we have XSAVES support
itself.  That might happen in-tree or out-of-tree as things get prototyped.

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[PATCH v2 0/9] x86/xsaves: Fix XSAVES known issues Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-25 21:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 4/9] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-25 21:40 +0100
  [PATCH v2 2/9] x86/xsaves: Rename xstate_size to kernel_xstate_size to explicitly distinguish xstate size in kernel from user space Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-25 21:40 +0100
  [PATCH v2 6/9] x86/xsaves: Supervisor state component offset Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-25 21:40 +0100
  [PATCH v2 5/9] x86/xsaves: Align xstate components according to CPUID Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-25 21:40 +0100
  [PATCH v2 3/9] x86/xsaves: Keep init_fpstate.xsave.header.xfeatures as zero for init optimization Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-25 21:40 +0100
  [PATCH v2 9/9] x86/xsaves: Re-enable XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-25 21:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] x86/xsaves: Re-enable XSAVES Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-25 21:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] x86/xsaves: Re-enable XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-25 22:10 +0100
  [PATCH v2 7/9] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-25 21:40 +0100
  [PATCH v2 8/9] x86/xsaves: Fix XSTATE component offset print out Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-25 21:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] x86/xsaves: Fix XSAVES known issues Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-25 22:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] x86/xsaves: Fix XSAVES known issues Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-25 22:10 +0100

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