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Suresh Siddha
ab5137015f x86, xsave: reorganization of signal save/restore fpstate code layout
move 64bit routines that saves/restores fpstate in/from user stack from
signal_64.c to xsave.c

restore_i387_xstate() now handles the condition when user passes
NULL fpstate.

Other misc changes for prepartion of xsave/xrstor sigcontext support.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:26 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
3c1c7f1014 x86, xsave: dynamically allocate sigframes fpstate instead of static allocation
dynamically allocate fpstate on the stack, instead of static allocation
in the current sigframe layout on the user stack. This will allow the
fpstate structure to grow in the future, which includes extended state
information supporting xsave/xrstor.

signal handlers will be able to access the fpstate pointer from the
sigcontext structure asusual, with no change. For the non RT sigframe's
(which are supported only for 32bit apps), current static fpstate layout
in the sigframe will be unused(so that we don't change the extramask[]
offset in the sigframe and thus prevent breaking app's which modify
extramask[]).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:25 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
dc1e35c6e9 x86, xsave: enable xsave/xrstor on cpus with xsave support
Enables xsave/xrstor by turning on cr4.osxsave on cpu's which have
the xsave support. For now, features that OS supports/enabled are
FP and SSE.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-30 19:49:24 +02:00