From 7496d6458fe3219d63848ce4a9afbd86245cab22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fenghua Yu Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 11:12:44 -0700 Subject: Define kernel API to get address of each state in xsave area In standard form, each state is saved in the xsave area in fixed offset. But in compacted form, offset of each saved state only can be calculated during run time because some xstates may not be enabled and saved. We define kernel API get_xsave_addr() returns address of a given state saved in a xsave area. It can be called in kernel to get address of each xstate in xsave area in either standard format or compacted format. It's useful when kernel wants to directly access each state in xsave area. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401387164-43416-17-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index 4505e2a950d8..f804dc935d2a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ void arch_task_cache_init(void) kmem_cache_create("task_xstate", xstate_size, __alignof__(union thread_xstate), SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_NOTRACK, NULL); + setup_xstate_comp(); } /* -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522