From a30469e7921a6dd2067e9e836d7787cfa0105627 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Siddha Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:21:24 -0700 Subject: x86: add linux kernel support for YMM state Impact: save/restore Intel-AVX state properly between tasks Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) introduce 256-bit vector processing capability. More about AVX at http://software.intel.com/sites/avx Add OS support for YMM state management using xsave/xrstor infrastructure to support AVX. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha LKML-Reference: <1239402084.27006.8057.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c index 2b54fe002e9..0a5b04aa98f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ void __ref xsave_cntxt_init(void) } /* - * for now OS knows only about FP/SSE + * Support only the state known to OS. */ pcntxt_mask = pcntxt_mask & XCNTXT_MASK; xsave_init(); -- cgit v1.2.3