Re: [PATCH v4 0/10] x86/xsaves: Fix XSAVES known issues

From: Yu-cheng Yu
Date: Fri Apr 29 2016 - 16:11:36 EST


On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 01:03:43PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> That's not feasible. Think of dynamic libraries or just-in-time
> compilers. What instruction set does /usr/bin/java use, for instance? :)

The java argument is true. In that case or when the bitmask is missing, we can allocate for all supported features.