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Date:   Mon, 24 May 2021 11:13:53 -0700
From:   "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>
To:     "Len Brown" <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc:     "Bae, Chang Seok" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
        "Borislav Petkov" <bp@suse.de>,
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        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
        "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 21/28] x86/fpu/amx: Initialize child's AMX state
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On Mon, May 24, 2021, at 10:37 AM, Len Brown wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 11:09 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > If we're going to start having different states with different
> > behaviors, let's make them real defines.
> >
> > #define XFEATURE_MASK_CLEARED_ON_CLONE ...
> 
> Probably a good idea.
> 
> However, "cleared on clone" isn't the property.
> The property is that the state is treated as VOLATILE.
> 

What does VOLATILE mean in this context?