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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Revert earlier patch of Disable AVX when eagerfpu is off

* Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> wrote:

> AVX was mistakenly believed to be dependent on eagerfpu switch.
> This turns out to be false. The earlier patch should be reverted.
>
> Original patch:
> http://git.kernel.org/tip/394db20ca240741a08d472173db13d6f6a6e5a28

So the original patch had a whole host of explanations of why that change is
correct. This revert should explain where that argumentation was wrong.

Also note that eagerfpu=off is on the way out, on v4.6 we'll switch all CPUs to
eagerfpu:

58122bf1d856 x86/fpu: Default eagerfpu=on on all CPUs

and in the not so distant future, if everything goes fine with the eager mode, I'd
like to drop the lazy FPU context switching code altogether - which will simplify
a lot of code. At that point the 'eagerfpu' boot option will go away as well.

Thanks,

Ingo

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