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Commit 9ce883be authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Andi Kleen
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[PATCH] x86: Remove noreplacement option



noreplacement is dangerous on modern systems because it will not replace the
context switch FNSAVE with SSE aware FXSAVE. But other places in the kernel still assume
SSE and do FXSAVE and the CPU will then access FXSAVE information with
FNSAVE and cause corruption.

Easiest way to avoid this is to remove the option. It was mostly for paranoia
reasons anyways and alternative()s have been stable for some time.

Thanks to Jeremy F. for reporting and helping debug it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
parent cf6387da
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