linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/26] x86, pkey: add PKRU xsave fields and data structure(s)

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Message-ID: <5601B2F9.3030906@sr71.net>
Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:58:49 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/26] x86, pkey: add PKRU xsave fields and data
 structure(s)

On 09/22/2015 12:53 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c~pkeys-03-xsave	2015-09-16 10:48:13.340060126 -0700
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c	2015-09-16 10:48:13.344060307 -0700
>> @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ static const char *xfeature_names[] =
>>  	"AVX-512 opmask"		,
>>  	"AVX-512 Hi256"			,
>>  	"AVX-512 ZMM_Hi256"		,
>> +	"unknown xstate feature (8)"	,
> 
> It's not unknown. It's PT, right?

Yes, it's the Processor Trace state.

I'll give it a real name and also a comment about it being unused.
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