Subject: Re: [patch 17/17] x86/fpu: Move FPU initialization into arch_cpu_finalize_init()

From: Thomas Gleixner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:52:14 +0200

On Tue, Jun 13 2023 at 22:03, Chang S. Bae wrote:

> On 6/13/2023 4:39 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>   
>> @@ -2396,6 +2393,13 @@ void __init arch_cpu_finalize_init(void)
>>   			'0' + (boot_cpu_data.x86 > 6 ? 6 : boot_cpu_data.x86);
>>   	}
>>   
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Must be before alternatives because it might set or clear
>> +	 * feature bits.
>> +	 */
>> +	fpu__init_system();
>> +	fpu__init_cpu();
>
> fpu__init_cpu() appears to be duplicated here because fpu__init_system() 
> invoked this already:
>
> void __init fpu__init_system(void)
> {
> ...
> 	/*
> 	 * The FPU has to be operational for some of the
> 	 * later FPU init activities:
> 	 */
> 	fpu__init_cpu();

Well, that's _before_ xstate initialization and I couldn't convince
myself that it's good enough. All of this is such a horrible mess...

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