x86/fpu/xstate: Re-enable XSAVES

We did not handle XSAVES instructions correctly. There were issues in
converting between standard and compacted format when interfacing with
user-space. These issues have been corrected.

Add a WARN_ONCE() to make it clear that XSAVES supervisor states are not
yet implemented.

Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468253937-40008-5-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c
index 60f3839..93982ae 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c
@@ -230,21 +230,6 @@ static void __init fpu__init_system_xstate_size_legacy(void)
 	}
 
 	fpu_user_xstate_size = fpu_kernel_xstate_size;
-
-	/*
-	 * Quirk: we don't yet handle the XSAVES* instructions
-	 * correctly, as we don't correctly convert between
-	 * standard and compacted format when interfacing
-	 * with user-space - so disable it for now.
-	 *
-	 * The difference is small: with recent CPUs the
-	 * compacted format is only marginally smaller than
-	 * the standard FPU state format.
-	 *
-	 * ( This is easy to backport while we are fixing
-	 *   XSAVES* support. )
-	 */
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES);
 }
 
 /*