x86: add linux kernel support for YMM state
Impact: save/restore Intel-AVX state properly between tasks Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) introduce 256-bit vector processing capability. More about AVX at http://software.intel.com/sites/avx Add OS support for YMM state management using xsave/xrstor infrastructure to support AVX. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1239402084.27006.8057.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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