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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-22 17:16:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-22 17:16:11 -0700
commite75c73ad64478c12b3a44b86a3e7f62a4f65b93e (patch)
tree9dbb1a2a4e53b480df86c49d478751b203cdccd4 /Documentation
parentcfe3eceb7a2eb91284d5605c5315249bb165e9d3 (diff)
parenta8424003679e90b9952e20adcd1ff1560d9dd3e9 (diff)
Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar: "This tree contains two main changes: - The big FPU code rewrite: wide reaching cleanups and reorganization that pulls all the FPU code together into a clean base in arch/x86/fpu/. The resulting code is leaner and faster, and much easier to understand. This enables future work to further simplify the FPU code (such as removing lazy FPU restores). By its nature these changes have a substantial regression risk: FPU code related bugs are long lived, because races are often subtle and bugs mask as user-space failures that are difficult to track back to kernel side backs. I'm aware of no unfixed (or even suspected) FPU related regression so far. - MPX support rework/fixes. As this is still not a released CPU feature, there were some buglets in the code - should be much more robust now (Dave Hansen)" * 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (250 commits) x86/fpu: Fix double-increment in setup_xstate_features() x86/mpx: Allow 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels again x86/mpx: Do not count MPX VMAs as neighbors when unmapping x86/mpx: Rewrite the unmap code x86/mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels x86/mpx: Use 32-bit-only cmpxchg() for 32-bit apps x86/mpx: Introduce new 'directory entry' to 'addr' helper function x86/mpx: Add temporary variable to reduce masking x86: Make is_64bit_mm() widely available x86/mpx: Trace allocation of new bounds tables x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables x86/mpx: Trace entry to bounds exception paths x86/mpx: Trace #BR exceptions x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag x86/mpx: Restrict the mmap() size check to bounds tables x86/mpx: Remove redundant MPX_BNDCFG_ADDR_MASK x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary x86/mpx: Use the new get_xsave_field_ptr()API x86/fpu/xstate: Wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer x86/fpu/xstate: Fix up bad get_xsave_addr() assumptions ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/preempt-locking.txt2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 60c9d6d0fd96..705ad8e66703 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -937,6 +937,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
+ nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
+ See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
+ information about the feature.
+
eagerfpu= [X86]
on enable eager fpu restore
off disable eager fpu restore
diff --git a/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt b/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt
index 57883ca2498b..e89ce6624af2 100644
--- a/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt
+++ b/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ preemption must be disabled around such regions.
Note, some FPU functions are already explicitly preempt safe. For example,
kernel_fpu_begin and kernel_fpu_end will disable and enable preemption.
-However, math_state_restore must be called with preemption disabled.
+However, fpu__restore() must be called with preemption disabled.
RULE #3: Lock acquire and release must be performed by same task