Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, fpu: Use eagerfpu by default on all CPUs

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Feb 25 2015 - 05:38:09 EST


On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 04:07:07PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I'd prefer a different partial solution: encourage everyone to clear
> the xstate before making syscalls (using e.g. vzeroall). In fact,
> maybe user code should aggressively clear newly-unused xstate.

We don't trust userspace.

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Boris.

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