Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 04/10 v2 ] x86/fpu: eager switch PKRU state | From | Rik van Riel <> | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:11:20 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 17:07 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 18/09/2018 16:27, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > > Likewise, move this to fpu__clear and outside "if > > > (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FPU))"? > > > > okay. But if there is no FPU we did not save/restore the pkru > > value. Is > > this supposed to be an improvement? > > Honestly it just seemed "more correct", but now that I think about > it, > kernel threads should run with PKRU=0. maybe there's a preexisting > bug > that your patch has the occasion to fix.
I don't think it matters what the PKRU state is for kernel threads, since kernel PTEs should not be using protection keys anyway.
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