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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>,
	jpa@kernelbug.mail.kapsi.fi, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Reset MXCSR to default in kernel_fpu_begin()
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:01:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200616180123.GL13515@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWQJtv6f1zYnWSiPe7qFUx4znthbysVC9NJ-88YqP5-eg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:53:39AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:53 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> >
> > Ok,
> >
> > here's the fix first so that it goes in. I'll hammer on the test case later.
> 
> Does the 32-bit case need FNINIT?

Pasting from IRC:

I'm thinking if you'd need to reinit the FPU, then you need to do it for
both, not only 32-bit or do you mean something else? Also, if you end up
doing FNSAVE (old CPU) that one reinits state.

Whatever we decide doing, this should be a separate patch anyway.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-16 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-16  9:53 [PATCH] x86/fpu: Reset MXCSR to default in kernel_fpu_begin() Borislav Petkov
2020-06-16 16:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-16 18:01   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-06-16 21:17     ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-17  8:33       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-17 15:30         ` Andy Lutomirski

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