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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:00:31 -0400
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: SSE related security hole
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:06:17PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> > 
> > Perhaps the right thing to do is to have a description in data of the
> > desired initialization state and just F[NX]RSTOR it?
> 
> Sounds like the cleanest solution. The state could be saved at CPU bootup
> with just MXCSR initialized.
> 
> I'll implement that for x86-64.

Ummm...last I knew, fxrstor is *expensive*.  The fninit/xor regs setup is 
likely *very* much faster.  Someone should check this before we sacrifice 
100 cycles needlessly or something.

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  Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>     919-754-3700 x44233
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