Re: Support generic disabling of all XSAVE features

[Andi Kleen]

Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Any comments on this patchkit? If there are no objections please merge.

-Andi

> For performance testing and debugging it can be useful to disable XSAVE
> features individually. This patchkit hooks up XSAVE with the
> generic clearcpuid=... option, so that disabling a CPUID feature
> automatically disables the respective XSAVE feature.
>
> It also cleans up CPUID dependency management. Currently it's
> possible to generate configurations with cleacpuid that crash.
>
> It replaces an earlier patchkit that did this with special
> case options.
>
> v1:
> Initial post
> v2:
> Work around broken lguest by exporting set_cpu_cap
> Repost with cover letter