Re: [regression] commit d298b03506d3 ("x86/fpu: Restore the masking out of reserved MXCSR bits")

From: Ville Syrjälä
Date: Thu Oct 14 2021 - 14:47:00 EST


On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 08:01:24PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 08:45:33PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > That ~ was indeed the problem. With it gone the machine is happy again.
> >
> > I presume you'll turn this into a real patch?
>
> Actually, you found it and you should be the one to write it and do the
> honors. Unless you don't want to - then I can do it.

I figured you can write a reasonably succinct commit message, instead
of having me ramble on incoherently. ATM I don't even know what mxcsr
is or why clobbering it would cause floating point exceptions with
sse specifically.

But I can certainly ramble, if you prefer that.

>
> If you do, pls add
>
> Ser Olmy <ser.olmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> to Cc so that he can test your patch. I *think* it should work for him
> too but I don't know anything anymore. :-)
>
> Thx.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
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