linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] x86, xsave: introduce xstate enable functions

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Message-Id: <1279751548.2812.77.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:32:28 -0700
From:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] x86, xsave: introduce xstate enable functions

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 14:53 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 02:20 PM, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, it should be __init.
> > 
> 
> OK, here is the proposed fix for that.  It's a bit uglier than I would
> have liked.
> 
> It also fixes the assumption that "we are on the boot CPU so we are
> early in the boot", which is true now but will not be true in the future
> when we can offline (and later re-online) the boot CPU.
> 
> Comments appreciated...

I am ok with this fix. Thanks for taking a stab at this.

suresh

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