Hello Greg, #Forgot to add --compose
Following up on our discussion during the review of kernel 4.4.138-stable, I have backported a few patches that remove the remaining FPU lazy mode deadcode from 4.4.y and 4.9.y. To avoid confusion I will send the explanation on separate e-mails:
Patches for 4.4.y: [PATCH 1/4] KVM: x86: remove eager_fpu field of struct kvm_vcpu_arch - This is a git cherry-pick of 5a5fbdc0e3f1 ("KVM: x86: remove eager_fpu field of struct kvm_vcpu_arch"). It applies cleanly and is required for the next patch not to cause conflicts on arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
[PATCH 2/4] x86/fpu: Remove use_eager_fpu() - The main conflict ocurred on fpu/core.c because commit bf15a8cf8d14 ("x86/fpu/xstate: Rename 'xstate_size' to 'fpu_kernel_xstate_size', to distinguish it from 'fpu_user_xstate_size'") is not on 4.4.y. That commit renames xstate_size to fpu_kernel_xstate_size but it also has its conflicts so I decided just to fix the conflict manually/
[PATCH 3/4] x86/fpu: Remove struct fpu::counter - caused one conflict because 4.4.y does not have commit d1898b733619 ("x86/fpu: Add tracepoints to dump FPU state at key points") I fixed it manually.
[PATCH 4/4] x86/fpu: Finish excising 'eagerfpu' - caused a small conflict because 'nopku' is not in 4.4.y - sorry my editor might have removed a couple of trailing spaces automatically to Documentation/kernel-paramters.txt - cause one conflict in these files because they didn't exist arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h - Instead I removed the X86_FEATURE_EAGER_FPU definition from arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
Best regards, Daniel Sangorrin
PS: Used git send-email --to stable@vger.kernel.org --cc-cmd="./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --norolestats" 2197a44..HEAD but it doesn't seem to work sorry...humm