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| author | Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> | 2008-07-29 19:29:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-30 19:49:25 +0200 |
| commit | 3c1c7f101426cb2ecc79d817a8a65928965fc860 (patch) | |
| tree | 55a2b7c5ccb28ea38bf82f7d799447980e2126c7 /arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c | |
| parent | x86, xsave: context switch support using xsave/xrstor (diff) | |
| download | linux-3c1c7f101426cb2ecc79d817a8a65928965fc860.tar.xz linux-3c1c7f101426cb2ecc79d817a8a65928965fc860.zip | |
x86, xsave: dynamically allocate sigframes fpstate instead of static allocation
dynamically allocate fpstate on the stack, instead of static allocation
in the current sigframe layout on the user stack. This will allow the
fpstate structure to grow in the future, which includes extended state
information supporting xsave/xrstor.
signal handlers will be able to access the fpstate pointer from the
sigcontext structure asusual, with no change. For the non RT sigframe's
(which are supported only for 32bit apps), current static fpstate layout
in the sigframe will be unused(so that we don't change the extramask[]
offset in the sigframe and thus prevent breaking app's which modify
extramask[]).
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c index c68b7c4ca249..7ad169e33528 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ unsigned int pcntxt_hmask, pcntxt_lmask; */ struct xsave_struct *init_xstate_buf; +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 +unsigned int sig_xstate_size = sizeof(struct _fpstate); +#endif + /* * Enable the extended processor state save/restore feature */ |