Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES
From: Yu-cheng Yu
Date: Mon Feb 22 2016 - 17:32:03 EST
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 02:19:05PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 02/22/2016 12:48 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> > It should have been:
> >
> > xsave->header.xfeatures = xfeatures |
> > (xsave->header.xfeatures & XFEATURE_MASK_SUPERVISOR);
> >
> > I'll fix it.
>
> Can we break it out to make it more clear?
>
> /*
> * The state that came in from userspace was user-state only.
> * Mask all the user states out of 'xfeatures'.
> */
> xsave->header.xfeatures &= XFEATURE_MASK_SUPERVISOR;
> /*
> * add back in the features that came in from userspace
> */
> xsave->header.xfeatures |= xfeatures
I will update it in the next version. Thanks!