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Commit aa283f49 authored by Suresh Siddha's avatar Suresh Siddha Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86, fpu: lazy allocation of FPU area - v5



Only allocate the FPU area when the application actually uses FPU, i.e., in the
first lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps.

for example: on my system after boot, there are around 300 processes, with
only 17 using FPU.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 61c4628b
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