Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] x86,fpu: split prev/next task fpu state handling

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Tue Oct 04 2016 - 11:29:07 EST


On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 16:26 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2016 1:49 PM, <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Move all handling of the next state FPU state handling into
> > switch_fpu_finish, in preparation for more lazily switching
> > FPU states.
> >
> > CR0.TS state is mirrored in a per-cpu variable, instead of
> > being passed around in a local variable, because that will
> > not be possible later in the series.
>
> This seems reasonable in principle, but IMO it would be less scary if
> you rebased onto this:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/log/?h=x8
> 6/fpu

I can rebase on top of that.

I am perfectly fine with your patches going in
first, and mine later on. Too many FPU changes
at once is risky, anyway.

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