linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] x86/fpu: minor cleanups

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Message-ID: <20150302183210.GA23085@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2015 19:32:10 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...gle.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] x86/fpu: minor cleanups

add lkml/cc's.

On 03/02, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Btw, why xstateregs_get/set() looks so confusing? The comment says
> "Copy the 48bytes defined by the software first into the xstate" but the
> code uses ->fxsave. Yes, this is the same memory, but still. I'll send
> the cosmetic cleanup.
>
> Or fx_finit()... Again, memset(fx, 0, xstate_size) is correct but only
> because of the current layout. I think this needs a cleanup too.

Of course this is purely cosmetic, but still...

Oleg.

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