x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave

Decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore policy from the existence of the xsave
feature. Introduce a synthetic CPUID flag to represent the eagerfpu
policy. "eagerfpu=on" boot paramter will enable the policy.

Requested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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2012-09-06 14:58:52 -07:00
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@@ -1833,6 +1833,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
eagerfpu= [X86]
on enable eager fpu restore
off disable eager fpu restore
nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.