This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/fpu: Remove the explicit clearing of XSAVE dependent features

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: x86-fpu-remove-the-explicit-clearing-of-xsave-dependent-features.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 73e3a7d2a7c3be29a5a22b85026f6cfa5664267f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:56:45 -0700 Subject: x86/fpu: Remove the explicit clearing of XSAVE dependent features

From: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com

commit 73e3a7d2a7c3be29a5a22b85026f6cfa5664267f upstream.

Clearing a CPU feature with setup_clear_cpu_cap() clears all features which depend on it. Expressing feature dependencies in one place is easier to maintain than keeping functions like fpu__xstate_clear_all_cpu_caps() up to date.

The features which depend on XSAVE have their dependency expressed in the dependency table, so its sufficient to clear X86_FEATURE_XSAVE.

Remove the explicit clearing of XSAVE dependent features.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013215645.23166-6-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c @@ -73,26 +73,6 @@ unsigned int fpu_user_xstate_size; void fpu__xstate_clear_all_cpu_caps(void) { setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVE); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVEOPT); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVEC); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX2); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512F); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512IFMA); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512PF); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512ER); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512CD); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512DQ); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512BW); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512VL); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_MPX); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XGETBV1); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512VBMI); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PKU); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512_4VNNIW); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512_4FMAPS); - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ); }

/*

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ak@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.14/bitops-add-clear-set_bit32-to-linux-bitops.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-fpu-remove-the-explicit-clearing-of-xsave-dependent-features.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpuid-add-generic-table-for-cpuid-dependencies.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpuid-prevent-out-of-bound-access-in-do_clear_cpu_cap.patch queue-4.14/x86-fpu-parse-clearcpuid-as-early-xsave-argument.patch queue-4.14/x86-fpu-make-xsave-check-the-base-cpuid-features-before-enabling.patch