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Message-ID: <86b8d81d760ac1f6e622f1c873a5f9aad7862734.camel@surriel.com>
Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 12:05:32 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
To: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@...media-net.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
stable@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Remove the _GPL from the
kernel_fpu_begin/end() export
On Sat, 2019-05-04 at 04:28 +0200, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
> Using fpu code in kernel space in a kernel module is a derived work
> of
> the kernel itself?
> dont get me wrong, but this is absurd. i mean you limit the use of
> cpu
> instructions. the use
> of cpu instructions should be free of any licensing issue. i would
> even
> argument you are violating
> the license of the cpu ower given to the kernel by executing it, by
> restricting its use for no reason
Using FPU code in kernel space in a kernel module
does not require the use of kernel_fpu_begin/end().
The kernel module could simply disable preemption,
save the FPU registers, use the FPU, restore the
FPU registers, and reenable preemption.
However, using kernel_fpu_begin/end() does get that
module some nice optimizations that are specific to
Linux.
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