On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Andi Kleen wrote:
> +/*
> + * Table of CPUID features that depend on others.
> + *
> + * This only includes dependencies that can be usefully disabled, not
> + * features part of the base set (like FPU).
> + */
> +const static struct cpuid_dep cpuid_deps[] = {
> + { X86_FEATURE_XSAVEOPT, X86_FEATURE_XSAVE },
> + { X86_FEATURE_XSAVEC, X86_FEATURE_XSAVE },
> + { X86_FEATURE_XSAVES, X86_FEATURE_XSAVE },
> + { X86_FEATURE_AVX, X86_FEATURE_XSAVE },
> + { X86_FEATURE_AVX512F, X86_FEATURE_XSAVE },
This looks redundant. AVX512F depends on AVX which itself depends on XSAVE.
> + { X86_FEATURE_PKU, X86_FEATURE_XSAVE },
> + { X86_FEATURE_MPX, X86_FEATURE_XSAVE },
> + { X86_FEATURE_XGETBV1, X86_FEATURE_XSAVE },
> + { X86_FEATURE_XMM2, X86_FEATURE_XMM },
XMM has no dependency?
Thanks,
tglx
