From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754232AbcEBRXz (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 13:23:55 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:42719 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754015AbcEBRXr (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 13:23:47 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.24,568,1455004800"; d="scan'208";a="967098522" Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 10:19:36 -0700 From: Yu-cheng Yu To: Dave Hansen Cc: x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , Sai Praneeth Prakhya , "Ravi V. Shankar" , Fenghua Yu Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Message-ID: <20160502171936.GA22224@test-lenovo> References: <5723BF63.2000100@linux.intel.com> <20160429224338.GA15757@test-lenovo> <5723FE20.7000906@linux.intel.com> <20160502155734.GA21577@test-lenovo> <57277B11.9080802@linux.intel.com> <20160502163410.GA21734@test-lenovo> <572783C3.8040907@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <572783C3.8040907@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 09:43:47AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > If (fpu.fpstate_active == 0), then the task does not use FPU; we don't > > want to save these registers, right? > > No. It's possible to have fpstate_active=0 while fpregs_active=1. Such > a task uses the FPU, but just hasn't done an XSAVE* to save the register > content to the fpstate buffer. > > Note, this is just theoretical, and does not happen in this particular > call path today. What about... static int may_copy_fpregs_to_sigframe(void) { if (fpregs_active()) return 1; WARN_ONCE(!current->thread.fpu.fpstate_active, "direct FPU save with no math use\n"); if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES)) return 1; return 0; }