Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2018 19:16:41 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v6 04/26] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce XSAVES system states |
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 09:08:11AM -0800, Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > Then we will do this very often. Why don't we create all three in the > beginning: xfeatures_mask_all, xfeatures_mask_user, and xfeatures_mask_system?
Because the _all thing is the OR-ed product of the two and then you don't have to update it when the _user and the _system ones change because you'll be creating it on the fly each time.
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