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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-22 17:16:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-22 17:16:11 -0700 |
| commit | e75c73ad64478c12b3a44b86a3e7f62a4f65b93e (patch) | |
| tree | 9dbb1a2a4e53b480df86c49d478751b203cdccd4 /Documentation | |
| parent | cfe3eceb7a2eb91284d5605c5315249bb165e9d3 (diff) | |
| parent | a8424003679e90b9952e20adcd1ff1560d9dd3e9 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree contains two main changes:
- The big FPU code rewrite: wide reaching cleanups and reorganization
that pulls all the FPU code together into a clean base in
arch/x86/fpu/.
The resulting code is leaner and faster, and much easier to
understand. This enables future work to further simplify the FPU
code (such as removing lazy FPU restores).
By its nature these changes have a substantial regression risk: FPU
code related bugs are long lived, because races are often subtle
and bugs mask as user-space failures that are difficult to track
back to kernel side backs. I'm aware of no unfixed (or even
suspected) FPU related regression so far.
- MPX support rework/fixes. As this is still not a released CPU
feature, there were some buglets in the code - should be much more
robust now (Dave Hansen)"
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (250 commits)
x86/fpu: Fix double-increment in setup_xstate_features()
x86/mpx: Allow 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels again
x86/mpx: Do not count MPX VMAs as neighbors when unmapping
x86/mpx: Rewrite the unmap code
x86/mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels
x86/mpx: Use 32-bit-only cmpxchg() for 32-bit apps
x86/mpx: Introduce new 'directory entry' to 'addr' helper function
x86/mpx: Add temporary variable to reduce masking
x86: Make is_64bit_mm() widely available
x86/mpx: Trace allocation of new bounds tables
x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables
x86/mpx: Trace entry to bounds exception paths
x86/mpx: Trace #BR exceptions
x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag
x86/mpx: Restrict the mmap() size check to bounds tables
x86/mpx: Remove redundant MPX_BNDCFG_ADDR_MASK
x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary
x86/mpx: Use the new get_xsave_field_ptr()API
x86/fpu/xstate: Wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer
x86/fpu/xstate: Fix up bad get_xsave_addr() assumptions
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/preempt-locking.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 60c9d6d0fd96..705ad8e66703 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -937,6 +937,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Enable debug messages at boot time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details. + nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. + See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more + information about the feature. + eagerfpu= [X86] on enable eager fpu restore off disable eager fpu restore diff --git a/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt b/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt index 57883ca2498b..e89ce6624af2 100644 --- a/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt +++ b/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ preemption must be disabled around such regions. Note, some FPU functions are already explicitly preempt safe. For example, kernel_fpu_begin and kernel_fpu_end will disable and enable preemption. -However, math_state_restore must be called with preemption disabled. +However, fpu__restore() must be called with preemption disabled. RULE #3: Lock acquire and release must be performed by same task |