linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 09/10] x86/xsaves: Fix xstate_offsets, xstate

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Message-ID: <20160429221552.GA15703@test-lenovo>
Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:15:52 -0700
From:	Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>,
	"Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/10] x86/xsaves: Fix xstate_offsets, xstate_sizes
 for legacy components

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 03:13:33PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 04/29/2016 03:07 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 01:28:31PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> >> On 03/04/2016 10:12 AM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> >>> The arrays xstate_offsets[] and xstate_sizes[] record XSAVE area 
> >>> offsets and sizes. Values for legacy components i387 and XMMs were
> >>> not initialized. Fix it.
> >>
> >> Is this just a completeness thing or does it actually break something?
> > 
> > PTRACE format conversion needs them.
> 
> If you respin these, can you please note that in the changelog and/or
> comments?

Do you mean when it is rebased?  I will do that.