Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86/efi: Implement FPU context save/restore

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On Thu, 27 Mar, at 03:10:38PM, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> It may be possible that EFI firmware wants to use the FPU. Thus, in such a case,
> the kernel EFI runtime services need to make sure that they save and restore the
> FPU context.
> 
> Additionally, several FPU internal functions require alternatives to be in place
> when running. Some of the FPU context save/restore instances that this series
> implements may occur early during boot; before the alternatives have run.
> Several FPU internal functions are updated to use the alternatives-safe variant
> of static_cpu_has. The performance penalty is negligible as the impacted
> functions are not performance-critical.
> 
> In order to prepare to implement the FPU context save/restore, this series also
> reworks many of the efi_call macros. The code will also be more readable and
> continue to be reusable between x86_64 and i386.

Thanks Ricardo, I've picked these up. I'll merge them into my 'next'
branch once the merge window closes.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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