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    powerpc: Explicitly disable math features when copying thread · d272f667
    Cyril Bur authored
    Currently when threads get scheduled off they always giveup the FPU,
    Altivec (VMX) and Vector (VSX) units if they were using them. When they are
    scheduled back on a fault is then taken to enable each facility and load
    registers. As a result explicitly disabling FPU/VMX/VSX has not been
    necessary.
    
    Future changes and optimisations remove this mandatory giveup and fault
    which could cause calls such as clone() and fork() to copy threads and run
    them later with FPU/VMX/VSX enabled but no registers loaded.
    
    This patch starts the process of having MSR_{FP,VEC,VSX} mean that a
    threads registers are hot while not having MSR_{FP,VEC,VSX} means that the
    registers must be loaded. This allows for a smarter return to userspace.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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