Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/fpu: Support disabling AVX and AVX512

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Mar 11 2017 - 12:21:50 EST


On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 11:46:37AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > +enum xsave_features {
> > + XSAVE_X87,
> > + XSAVE_SSE,
> > + XSAVE_AVX,
> > + XSAVE_MPX_BOUNDS,
> > + XSAVE_MPX_CSR,
> > + XSAVE_AVX512_OPMASK,
> > + XSAVE_AVX512_HI256,
> > + XSAVE_AVX512_ZMM_HI256,
> > + XSAVE_PT,
> > + XSAVE_PKU,
> > + XSAVE_UNKNOWN
> > +};
>
> What's that enum for? It's unused ....

It's not. The disable functions use it (although only the AVX parts)

-Andi