From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753010Ab0EJPY6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2010 11:24:58 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41843 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752083Ab0EJPY4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2010 11:24:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4BE8252B.8020208@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 08:24:27 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Avi Kivity CC: Ingo Molnar , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Brian Gerst , Dexuan Cui , Sheng Yang , Suresh Siddha Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] x86 FPU API References: <1273135546-29690-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <4BE7C857.1000600@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4BE7C857.1000600@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/10/2010 01:48 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 05/06/2010 11:45 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> Currently all fpu accessors are wedded to task_struct. However kvm >> also uses >> the fpu in a different context. Introduce an FPU API, and replace the >> current uses with the new API. >> >> While this patchset is oriented towards deeper changes, as a first >> step it >> simlifies xsave for kvm. >> > > Peter/Ingo, what are the plans for merging it? The kvm xsave work > depends on this. > Going to look at it today. Looks good, but I want to go over it in detail to catch any gotchas. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.