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The FNSAVE support requires conditionals in quite some call paths because FNSAVE reinitializes the FPU hardware. If the save has to preserve the FPU register state then the caller has to conditionally restore it from memory when FNSAVE is in use. This also requires a conditional in context switch because the restore avoidance optimization cannot work with FNSAVE. As this only affects 20+ years old CPUs there is really no reason to keep this optimization effective for FNSAVE. It's about time to not optimize for antiques anymore. Just unconditionally FRSTOR the save content to the registers and clean up the conditionals all over the place. Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210623121454.617369268@linutronix.de
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.