I tried to simulate an ancient CPU via this option, and found that it still has fxsr_opt enabled, confusing the FPU code.
Make the 'nofxsr' option also clear FXSR_OPT flag. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua...@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index d15610b0a4cf..d6fe512441e5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -171,6 +171,15 @@ static int __init x86_xsaves_setup(char *s) } __setup("noxsaves", x86_xsaves_setup); +static int __init x86_fxsr_setup(char *s) +{ + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_FXSR); + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_FXSR_OPT); + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XMM); + return 1; +} +__setup("nofxsr", x86_fxsr_setup); + #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 static int cachesize_override = -1; static int disable_x86_serial_nr = 1; @@ -182,14 +191,6 @@ static int __init cachesize_setup(char *str) } __setup("cachesize=", cachesize_setup); -static int __init x86_fxsr_setup(char *s) -{ - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_FXSR); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XMM); - return 1; -} -__setup("nofxsr", x86_fxsr_setup); - static int __init x86_sep_setup(char *s) { setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_SEP); -- 2.1.0 -- 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/