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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-04-29 08:46:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-05-19 15:48:02 +0200 |
| commit | 2e85591a6ca2ad84741d2859753be5497d74bd42 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a13e18e3de89e18ccc94adbc5fa58a83c0593cb /arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | |
| parent | x86/fpu: Initialize fpregs in fpu__init_cpu_generic() (diff) | |
| download | linux-2e85591a6ca2ad84741d2859753be5497d74bd42.tar.xz linux-2e85591a6ca2ad84741d2859753be5497d74bd42.zip | |
x86/fpu: Better document fpu__clear() state handling
So prior to this fix:
c88d47480d30 ("x86/fpu: Always restore_xinit_state() when use_eager_cpu()")
we leaked FPU state across execve() boundaries on eagerfpu systems:
$ /host/home/mingo/dump-xmm-regs-exec
# XMM state before execve():
XMM0 : 000000000000dede
XMM1 : 000000000000dedf
XMM2 : 000000000000dee0
XMM3 : 000000000000dee1
XMM4 : 000000000000dee2
XMM5 : 000000000000dee3
XMM6 : 000000000000dee4
XMM7 : 000000000000dee5
XMM8 : 000000000000dee6
XMM9 : 000000000000dee7
XMM10: 000000000000dee8
XMM11: 000000000000dee9
XMM12: 000000000000deea
XMM13: 000000000000deeb
XMM14: 000000000000deec
XMM15: 000000000000deed
# XMM state after execve(), in the new task context:
XMM0 : 0000000000000000
XMM1 : 2f2f2f2f2f2f2f2f
XMM2 : 0000000000000000
XMM3 : 0000000000000000
XMM4 : 00000000000000ff
XMM5 : 00000000ff000000
XMM6 : 000000000000dee4
XMM7 : 000000000000dee5
XMM8 : 0000000000000000
XMM9 : 0000000000000000
XMM10: 0000000000000000
XMM11: 0000000000000000
XMM12: 0000000000000000
XMM13: 000000000000deeb
XMM14: 000000000000deec
XMM15: 000000000000deed
Better explain what this function is supposed to do and why.
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c')
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