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    x86/fpu: Rename xsave.header::xstate_bv to 'xfeatures' · 400e4b20
    Ingo Molnar authored
    
    
    'xsave.header::xstate_bv' is a misnomer - what does 'bv' stand for?
    
    It probably comes from the 'XGETBV' instruction name, but I could
    not find in the Intel documentation where that abbreviation comes
    from. It could mean 'bit vector' - or something else?
    
    But how about - instead of guessing about a weird name - we named
    the field in an obvious and descriptive way that tells us exactly
    what it does?
    
    So rename it to 'xfeatures', which is a bitmask of the
    xfeatures that are fpstate_active in that context structure.
    
    Eyesore like:
    
               fpu->state->xsave.xsave_hdr.xstate_bv |= XSTATE_FP;
    
    is now much more readable:
    
               fpu->state->xsave.header.xfeatures |= XSTATE_FP;
    
    Which form is not just infinitely more readable, but is also
    shorter as well.
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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