Re: [RFC] x86: Disable traditional FPU instructions too

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Jan 28 2014 - 04:37:18 EST


[CCing Ralf for MIPS.]

On Mon 27-01-14 17:45:44, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 08:41:09AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > I don't think it'd hurt... although I think the above pretty much
> > requires that the code contain actual floating-point types to ever be
> > generated.
>
> Yes, that is supposed to catch usage of the 'E' floating constant, for
> example, in definitions. It is a build-time assertion, if you want. :)

And git grep says that mips abuses this notation:
arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h:#define MS_TO_NS(x) (x * 1E6L)

I do not have cross-compiler set up to check whether this is a real
issue because include/media/rc-core.h defines the same macro correctly
so the real code might end up using the right variant.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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