AMD DC graphics display code enables -mhard-float, -msse, -msse2 without any visible FPU state protection

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Tue Apr 7 11:15:35 UTC 2020


On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 06:50:08PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 12:21:07 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:

> > arch/x86/mm/extable.o: warning: objtool: ex_handler_fprestore()+0x8b: fpu_safe hint not an FPU instruction
> > 008b  36b:      48 0f ae 0d 00 00 00    fxrstor64 0x0(%rip)        # 373 <ex_handler_fprestore+0x93>
> > 
> > arch/x86/kvm/x86.o: warning: objtool: kvm_load_guest_fpu.isra.0()+0x1fa: fpu_safe hint not an FPU instruction
> > 01fa    1d2fa:  48 0f ae 4b 40          fxrstor64 0x40(%rbx)
> 
> Ah, fxstor will not chang the FPU/MMX/SSE regs but just store it on memory.
> OK, I'll remove it from the list.

Yeah, I don't much care if its in or out, but the way I was reading that
patch it _should_ be in, but then it doesn't seem to recognise it.

> > Also, all the VMX bits seems to qualify as FPU (I can't remember seeing
> > that previously):
> 
> Oops, let me check it.

I just send you another patch that could do with insn_is_vmx()
(sorry!!!)


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