On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 3:37 PM Chang S. Bae <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rename XFEATURE_MASK_USER_SUPPORTED to XFEATURE_MASK_USER_ENABLED to > literally align with new boot-parameters. > > "xstate.disable=0x60000" will disable AMX on a system that has AMX compiled > into XFEATURE_MASK_USER_ENABLED. > > "xstate.enable=0x60000" will enable AMX on a system that does NOT have AMX > compiled into XFEATURE_MASK_USER_ENABLED (assuming the kernel is new enough > to support this feature). >
What's the purpose of xstate.enable? I can't really imagine it's useful for AMX. I suppose it could be useful for hypothetical post-AMX features, but that sounds extremely dangerous. Intel has changed its strategy so many times on XSTATE extensibility that I find it quite hard to believe that supporting unknown states is wise.
