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SubjectRe: [PATCH 10/11] x86/fpu: prepare copy_fpstate_to_sigframe for TIF_LOAD_FPU
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 12:40:19PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > + __fpregs_changes_end();
>
> Do we really need the __fpregs_changes_*() abstraction for this single
> call site?

Yap, I'm staring at those in patch 2, there's no documentation there what
they're supposed to do, only the commit message of patch 11 says:

"The __fpregs_changes_{begin|end}() section ensures that the register
remain unchanged. Otherwise a context switch or a BH could save the
registers to its FPU context and processor's FPU register would remain
random."

So I'd say we should drop that abstraction, use preempt_* and put that
text above the single usage site.

Thx.

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Boris.

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