Subjects should ideally be written without large identifiers: Subject: x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce dynamic kernel features On 11/26/24 02:17, Chao Gao wrote: > Remove the kernel dynamic feature from fpu_kernel_cfg.default_features > so that the bits in xstate_bv and xcomp_bv are cleared and xsaves/xrstors > can be optimized by HW for normal fpstate. I'm really confused why this changelog hunk is here. Right now, all kernel XSAVE buffers have the same supervisor xfeatures. This introduces the idea that they can have different xfeature sets. The _purpose_ of this is to save space when only some FPUs need a given feature. This saves space in 'struct fpu'. It probably doesn't actually make XSAVE/XRSTOR any faster because the init optimization is very likely to be in place for these features. I'm not sure what point the changelog was trying to make about xstate_bv and xcomp_bv. xstate_bv[12] would have been 0 if the feature was in its init state.
