Initializing the FPU during the early boot process is a pointless exercise. Early boot is convoluted and fragile enough. Nothing requires that the FPU is set up early. It has to be initialized before fork_init() because the task_struct size depends on the FPU register buffer size. Move the initialization to arch_cpu_finalize_init() which is the perfect place to do so. No functional change. This allows to remove quite some of the custom early command line parsing, but that's subject to the next installment. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -1604,8 +1604,6 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(st sld_setup(c); - fpu__init_system(); - #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 /* * Regardless of whether PCID is enumerated, the SDM says @@ -2287,8 +2285,6 @@ void cpu_init(void) doublefault_init_cpu_tss(); - fpu__init_cpu(); - if (is_uv_system()) uv_cpu_init(); @@ -2304,6 +2300,7 @@ void cpu_init_secondary(void) */ cpu_init_exception_handling(); cpu_init(); + fpu__init_cpu(); } #endif @@ -2396,6 +2393,13 @@ void __init arch_cpu_finalize_init(void) '0' + (boot_cpu_data.x86 > 6 ? 6 : boot_cpu_data.x86); } + /* + * Must be before alternatives because it might set or clear + * feature bits. + */ + fpu__init_system(); + fpu__init_cpu(); + alternative_instructions(); if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64)) {