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Message-ID: <6f91699c91f9ea0f527e80ed3ea2999444a8d2d1.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Feb 2020 08:20:27 -0800
From:   Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] x86/fpu/xstate: Restore supervisor xstates for
 __fpu__restore_sig()

On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 17:23 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 07:53:38AM -0800, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> > Yes, saving only supervisor states is optimal, but doing XSAVES with a
> > partial RFBM changes xcomp_bv.
> 
> ... and that means what exactly in plain english?

When XSAVES writes to an xsave buffer, xsave->header.xcomp_bv is set to
include only saved components, effectively changing the buffer's format.

I will include this in the comments.

Yu-cheng

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