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Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 19:49:39 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 087/208] x86/fpu: Explain the AVX register layout in the xsave area
The previous explanation was rather cryptic.
Also transform "u32 [64]" to the more readable "u8[256]" form.
No change in implementation.
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
index 9bd2cd1a19fd..8a5120a3b48b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
@@ -78,9 +78,16 @@ struct i387_soft_struct {
u32 entry_eip;
};
+/*
+ * There are 16x 256-bit AVX registers named YMM0-YMM15.
+ * The low 128 bits are aliased to the 16 SSE registers (XMM0-XMM15)
+ * and are stored in 'struct i387_fxsave_struct::xmm_space[]'.
+ *
+ * The high 128 bits are stored here:
+ * 16x 128 bits == 256 bytes.
+ */
struct ymmh_struct {
- /* 16 * 16 bytes for each YMMH-reg = 256 bytes */
- u32 ymmh_space[64];
+ u8 ymmh_space[256];
};
/* We don't support LWP yet: */
--
2.1.0
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