Re: [PATCH v5 21/28] x86/fpu/amx: Initialize child's AMX state

Andy Lutomirski
2021-05-24T18:14:20Z

On Mon, May 24, 2021, at 10:37 AM, Len Brown wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 11:09 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > If we're going to start having different states with different
> > behaviors, let's make them real defines.
> >
> > #define XFEATURE_MASK_CLEARED_ON_CLONE ...
>
> Probably a good idea.
>
> However, "cleared on clone" isn't the property.
> The property is that the state is treated as VOLATILE.
>

What does VOLATILE mean in this context?