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Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly

From Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly
Date 2016-05-02 19:30 +0200
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On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 09:43:47AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > If (fpu.fpstate_active == 0), then the task does not use FPU; we don't
> > want to save these registers, right?  
> 
> No.  It's possible to have fpstate_active=0 while fpregs_active=1.  Such
> a task uses the FPU, but just hasn't done an XSAVE* to save the register
> content to the fpstate buffer.
> 
> Note, this is just theoretical, and does not happen in this particular
> call path today.

What about...

static int may_copy_fpregs_to_sigframe(void)
{
	if (fpregs_active())
		return 1;


	WARN_ONCE(!current->thread.fpu.fpstate_active,
		  "direct FPU save with no math use\n");

	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES))
		return 1;

	return 0;
} 

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Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-29 22:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-04-30 00:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-30 02:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-02 18:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-05-02 18:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-02 18:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-05-02 19:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-02 19:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-05-02 23:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-05-02 23:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-02 23:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-05-03 00:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-03 00:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows  correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-05-02 18:10 +0200

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