From 400e4b209166dcd3e3a155401c57bdc6413bf715 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:19:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Rename xsave.header::xstate_bv to 'xfeatures' 'xsave.header::xstate_bv' is a misnomer - what does 'bv' stand for? It probably comes from the 'XGETBV' instruction name, but I could not find in the Intel documentation where that abbreviation comes from. It could mean 'bit vector' - or something else? But how about - instead of guessing about a weird name - we named the field in an obvious and descriptive way that tells us exactly what it does? So rename it to 'xfeatures', which is a bitmask of the xfeatures that are fpstate_active in that context structure. Eyesore like: fpu->state->xsave.xsave_hdr.xstate_bv |= XSTATE_FP; is now much more readable: fpu->state->xsave.header.xfeatures |= XSTATE_FP; Which form is not just infinitely more readable, but is also shorter as well. Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed