Re: [PATCH 01/16] x86, fpu: wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 05:17:08PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Is there a reason to have the task argument at all if thats only
> > intended for current?
> 
> Right, so I think we either use @tsk everywhere or disable preemption in
> the whole function if using current. But I think we want to use @tsk...

Why should we disable preemption?

Thanks,

	tglx

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