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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22] x86/fpu: Remove fpu->initialized usage in
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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:43:17 -0800
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On 1/18/19 1:37 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2019-01-18 13:17:28 [-0800], Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 1/18/19 1:14 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>>> The kernel saves task's FPU registers on user's signal stack before
>>> entering the signal handler. Can we avoid that and have in-kernel memory
>>> for that? Does someone rely on the FPU registers from the task in the
>>> signal handler?
>>
>> This is part of our ABI for *sure*.  
> 
> I missed that part. I will try to look it up and look see if says
> something about optional part.
> But ABI means we must keep doing it even if there are no users?

I'd bet a large sum of money there are users.

Google for 'uc_mcontext fpregs'.