On 07/22/2014 07:35 PM, Ren, Qiaowei wrote:
> The checking about MPX feature should be as follow:
>
> if (pcntxt_mask & XSTATE_EAGER) {
> if (eagerfpu == DISABLE) {
> pr_err("eagerfpu not present, disabling some xstate features: 0x%llx\n",
> pcntxt_mask & XSTATE_EAGER);
> pcntxt_mask &= ~XSTATE_EAGER;
> } else {
> eagerfpu = ENABLE;
> }
> }
>
> This patch was merged into kernel the ending of last year (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e7d820a5e549b3eb6c3f9467507566565646a669 )
Should we be doing a clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_MPX) in here?
This isn't major, but I can't _ever_ imagine a user being able to track
down why MPX is not working from this message. Should we spruce it up
somehow?
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