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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/5] x86/cpuid: Add generic table for cpuid dependencies
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 16:08:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171005230813.GA5109@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1710060031130.2398@nanos>

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 12:41:56AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * Table of CPUID features that depend on others.
> > + *
> > + * This only includes dependencies that can be usefully disabled, not
> > + * features part of the base set (like FPU).
> > + */
> > +const static struct cpuid_dep cpuid_deps[] = {
> > +	{ X86_FEATURE_XSAVEOPT,		X86_FEATURE_XSAVE     },
> > +	{ X86_FEATURE_XSAVEC,		X86_FEATURE_XSAVE     },
> > +	{ X86_FEATURE_XSAVES,		X86_FEATURE_XSAVE     },
> > +	{ X86_FEATURE_AVX,		X86_FEATURE_XSAVE     },
> > +	{ X86_FEATURE_AVX512F,		X86_FEATURE_XSAVE     },
> 
> This looks redundant. AVX512F depends on AVX which itself depends on XSAVE.

True.

> 
> > +	{ X86_FEATURE_PKU,		X86_FEATURE_XSAVE     },
> > +	{ X86_FEATURE_MPX,		X86_FEATURE_XSAVE     },
> > +	{ X86_FEATURE_XGETBV1,		X86_FEATURE_XSAVE     },
> > +	{ X86_FEATURE_XMM2,		X86_FEATURE_XMM       },
> 
> XMM has no dependency?

Only FXSAVE, I'll add that.

Thanks,

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-05 21:52 Support generic disabling of all XSAVE features Andi Kleen
2017-10-05 21:52 ` [PATCH v8 1/5] x86/xsave: Move xsave initialization to after parsing early parameters Andi Kleen
2017-10-05 21:52 ` [PATCH v8 2/5] x86/cpuid: Add generic table for cpuid dependencies Andi Kleen
2017-10-05 22:41   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-10-05 23:08     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2017-10-05 23:34     ` Andi Kleen
2017-10-05 21:52 ` [PATCH v8 3/5] x86/cpuid: Make clearcpuid an early param Andi Kleen
2017-10-05 21:52 ` [PATCH v8 4/5] x86/xsave: Make XSAVE check the base CPUID features before enabling Andi Kleen
2017-11-11 23:15   ` [v8, " Guenter Roeck
2017-11-12  6:41     ` Andi Kleen
2017-11-14  1:28       ` Andi Kleen
2017-11-14  1:49         ` Guenter Roeck
2017-11-16 19:03           ` Andi Kleen
2017-11-16 22:13             ` Guenter Roeck
2017-11-14  2:33         ` Guenter Roeck
2019-06-29 15:22   ` [PATCH v8 " Vegard Nossum
2019-07-01 12:17     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-07-01 16:41       ` Andi Kleen
2019-07-01 16:39     ` Andi Kleen
2017-10-05 21:52 ` [PATCH v8 5/5] x86/xsave: Remove the explicit clearing of XSAVE dependend features Andi Kleen

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