Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 22/22] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce boot-parameters for control some state component support | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Fri, 2 Oct 2020 10:26:31 -0700 |
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On 10/2/20 10:15 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> "xstate.enable=0x6000" will enable AMX on a system that does NOT have AMX >> compiled into XFEATURE_MASK_USER_SUPPORTED (assuming the kernel is new >> enough to support this feature). > This sounds like it will be quite confusing to anyone reading the > kernel code to discover that a feature that is not "SUPPORTED" is > nonetheless enabled. Yeah, if we do this, XFEATURE_MASK_USER_SUPPORTED needs a name change for sure.
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