Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:23:17 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: ABI change for device drivers using future AVX instruction set |
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Avi Kivity wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: >>>>> We could change kernel_fpu_begin() not to disable >>>>> preemption, but instead set a task flag. When we get the "no device" >>>>> fault, if the flag is set, save the fpu state into the kernel fpu save >>>>> area >>>> What kernel fpu save area do you mean? >>>> >>> A new one, of course. >>> >>> >> >> With that we would be eventually in the mess Agner talked about. >> >> > > If you use xsave, I don't see how this is different to the user fpu save > area.
For once there's no clear error handling path for allocation failures on the (arbitarily sized) xsave state. On user code that can be barely tolerated, but for the kernel it would be deadly.
-Andi
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