[PATCH] x86_64: Use the x86-64 level for purgatory

Simon Horman horms at kernel.org
Wed Apr 23 08:45:59 PDT 2025


On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 11:23:25AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 09:31:40AM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> > The compiler may be configured by default to use a newer
> > microarchitecture level such as x86-64-v3. Set purgatory to compile
> > using the baseline x86-64 level since the environment isn't set up
> > correctly to use SSE and AVX instructions.  At the same time, be a bit
> > paranoid and add some additional flags to ensure that the compiler
> > doesn't use any such instructions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall at citrix.com>
> 
> Thanks Ross, applied for inclusion in v2.0.32.

Sorry, I forgot to add this yesterday (I am not a robot :).
The patch can be found at:

- x86_64: Use the x86-64 level for purgatory
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/commit/?id=14f48ea80e51




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