Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()

[Avi Kivity]

On 09/19/2012 08:26 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 09/19/2012 10:22 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> 
>> Note, we could also go in a different direction and make
>> kernel_fpu_begin() use preempt notifiers and thus make its users
>> preemptible.  But that's for a separate patchset.
>> 
> 
> Where would you put the state if you were preempted?  You want to
> allocate a full extra buffer for the kernel xstate for each thread just
> in case?  ("Yes" is a valid answer to that question, but it is a fair
> chunk of memory.)

kernel_fpu_begin() could receive a pointer to a struct fpu, with
fpu->state either preallocated by the caller, or allocated by
kernel_fpu_begin() itself.

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