Article 5K9R6 Linux 5.13 Lands More Fixes To The Mucked Up FPU/XSTATE Handling Mess

Linux 5.13 Lands More Fixes To The Mucked Up FPU/XSTATE Handling Mess

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Earlier this month Linux 5.13 disabled Intel's ENQCMD functionality for upcoming Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" processors as the kernel software code around it was deemed "broken beyond repair". More of the recent Intel-submitted patches around reworking kernel code in preparation for upcoming CPU features has been found to be rather hairy after already being mainlined and thus another batch of urgent x86 fixes were sent in this morning...
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