linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX XSAVE features

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Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:35:35 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX
 XSAVE features


* Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> wrote:

> > Now, more and more features depend on eger xsave, e.g, fpu, mpx and 
> > protection-key, maybe it is the time to rename eager-fpu to eager-xsave?
> 
> Yeah, that could be possible.  You can propose it to Ingo Molnar (CCed).
>  If you change it in the general purpose kernel code, KVM will of course follow 
> suit.

So we have this queued up for v4.6:

  58122bf1d856 x86/fpu: Default eagerfpu=on on all CPUs

and if all goes fine with that then the plan for v4.7 is to remove the lazy FPU 
restore code altogether.

Thanks,

	Ingo