From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934391AbbIVT6z (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:58:55 -0400 Received: from www.sr71.net ([198.145.64.142]:41576 "EHLO blackbird.sr71.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752960AbbIVT6y (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:58:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/26] x86, pkey: add PKRU xsave fields and data structure(s) To: Thomas Gleixner References: <20150916174903.E112E464@viggo.jf.intel.com> <20150916174905.0ECA529B@viggo.jf.intel.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <5601B2F9.3030906@sr71.net> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:58:49 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/22/2015 12:53 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, Dave Hansen wrote: >> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c~pkeys-03-xsave 2015-09-16 10:48:13.340060126 -0700 >> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c 2015-09-16 10:48:13.344060307 -0700 >> @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ static const char *xfeature_names[] = >> "AVX-512 opmask" , >> "AVX-512 Hi256" , >> "AVX-512 ZMM_Hi256" , >> + "unknown xstate feature (8)" , > > It's not unknown. It's PT, right? Yes, it's the Processor Trace state. I'll give it a real name and also a comment about it being unused.