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x86/fpu: Revert ("x86/fpu: Disable AVX when eagerfpu is off")
authorYu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:28:54 +0000 (16:28 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 07:54:25 +0000 (09:54 +0200)
commit93deddfd9b249d7fe5daf5eee59b071ecd333b8d
treeb87ca52a6e5049e959d257963e757df18b074d4d
parent0e005aa5597ca9759954ea8131fe139f2f53c1f6
x86/fpu: Revert ("x86/fpu: Disable AVX when eagerfpu is off")

commit a65050c6f17e52442716138d48d0a47301a8344b upstream.

Leonid Shatz noticed that the SDM interpretation of the following
recent commit:

  394db20ca240741 ("x86/fpu: Disable AVX when eagerfpu is off")

... is incorrect and that the original behavior of the FPU code was correct.

Because AVX is not stated in CR0 TS bit description, it was mistakenly
believed to be not supported for lazy context switch. This turns out
to be false:

  Intel Software Developer's Manual Vol. 3A, Sec. 2.5 Control Registers:

   'TS Task Switched bit (bit 3 of CR0) -- Allows the saving of the x87 FPU/
    MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSSE3/SSE4 context on a task switch to be delayed until
    an x87 FPU/MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSSE3/SSE4 instruction is actually executed
    by the new task.'

  Intel Software Developer's Manual Vol. 2A, Sec. 2.4 Instruction Exception
  Specification:

   'AVX instructions refer to exceptions by classes that include #NM
    "Device Not Available" exception for lazy context switch.'

So revert the commit.

Reported-by: Leonid Shatz <leonid.shatz@ravellosystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457569734-3785-1-git-send-email-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/xstate.h
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c