On 09/19/2012 10:22 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Note, we could also go in a different direction and make > kernel_fpu_begin() use preempt notifiers and thus make its users > preemptible. But that's for a separate patchset. >
Where would you put the state if you were preempted? You want to allocate a full extra buffer for the kernel xstate for each thread just in case? ("Yes" is a valid answer to that question, but it is a fair chunk of memory.) -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/