From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933830AbcCISmf (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2016 13:42:35 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f66.google.com ([74.125.82.66]:33384 "EHLO mail-wm0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750817AbcCISm3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2016 13:42:29 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:42:24 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Yu-cheng Yu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Dave Hansen , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Sai Praneeth Prakhya , "Ravi V. Shankar" , Leonid Shatz , Fenghua Yu , Andy Lutomirski , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Revert earlier patch of Disable AVX when eagerfpu is off Message-ID: <20160309184224.GC17956@gmail.com> References: <1453511438-25827-1-git-send-email-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> <20160309124626.GA28660@gmail.com> <20160309171938.GA15503@test-lenovo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160309171938.GA15503@test-lenovo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 01:46:26PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > > > > > AVX was mistakenly believed to be dependent on eagerfpu switch. > > > This turns out to be false. The earlier patch should be reverted. > > > > > > Original patch: > > > http://git.kernel.org/tip/394db20ca240741a08d472173db13d6f6a6e5a28 > > > > So the original patch had a whole host of explanations of why that change is > > correct. This revert should explain where that argumentation was wrong. > > I will send out another version that includes more details. Great, thanks! Ingo