Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:16:54 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH Bugfix 1/4] x86/xsave.c: Fix xstate offsets and sizes enumeration |
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On Sat, 18 Apr 2015, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> > > When enumerating xstate offsets and sizes from cpuid (eax=0x0d, ecx>=2), > it's possible that state m is not implemented while state n (n>m) > is implemented. So enumeration shouldn't stop at state m. > > There is no platform configured like above yet. But this could be a problem > in the future.
So this is for future hardware. Why are you claiming this is a BUGFIX?
This is a regular hardware enablement or are you saying that this is backport material?
Confused.
tglx
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