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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>,
	"Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/10] x86/xsaves: Fix XSAVES known issues
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:37:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5723C5FC.5090302@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160429200709.GA15412@test-lenovo>

On 04/29/2016 01:07 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 01:03:43PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>>> That's not feasible.  Think of dynamic libraries or just-in-time 
>>> compilers.  What instruction set does /usr/bin/java use, for
>>> instance? :)
> The java argument is true. In that case or when the bitmask is
> missing, we can allocate for all supported features.

Remember, execve() doesn't replace the task_struct.  How do we resize
the task_struct at execve() time?  If /bin/bash doesn't use AVX, then
fork()s and execve()s an AVX-using program, what do we do?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-29 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-04 18:12 [PATCH v4 0/10] x86/xsaves: Fix XSAVES known issues Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] x86/xsaves: Define and use user_xstate_size for xstate size in signal context Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] x86/xsaves: Rename xstate_size to kernel_xstate_size to explicitly distinguish xstate size in kernel from user space Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] x86/xsaves: Keep init_fpstate.xsave.header.xfeatures as zero for init optimization Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:09   ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 22:43     ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-30  0:36       ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 15:57         ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 16:06           ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 16:34             ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 16:43               ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 17:19                 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 17:33                   ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 21:18                     ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 21:24                       ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 21:32                         ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 22:17                           ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 22:37                             ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] x86/xsaves: Align xstate components according to CPUID Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:11   ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] x86/xsaves: Supervisor state component offset Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:16   ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 20:38     ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-29 20:40       ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 20:46         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-29 20:25   ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 22:30     ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 22:36       ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 22:38         ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix XSTATE component offset print out Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:26   ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] x86/xsaves: Fix xstate_offsets, xstate_sizes for legacy components Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:28   ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 22:07     ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 22:13       ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 22:15         ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] x86/xsaves: Re-enable XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:32   ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 23:12     ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-30  0:40       ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 16:11         ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-04 22:15           ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-04 22:21             ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-04 22:41   ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-04 22:46     ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-04 22:46     ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 0/10] x86/xsaves: Fix XSAVES known issues Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 19:43   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-29 19:57   ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:03     ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 20:07       ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:25         ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-29 20:40           ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 20:49             ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-29 22:42               ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-30  7:53             ` Ingo Molnar
2016-05-02 16:28               ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 18:32                 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-29 20:37         ` Dave Hansen [this message]

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