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The kernel_fpu structure has a quite large size of 520 bytes. In order to reduce stack footprint introduce several kernel fpu structures with different and also smaller sizes. This way every kernel fpu user must use the correct variant. A compile time check verifies that the correct variant is used. There are several users which use only 16 instead of all 32 vector registers. For those users the new kernel_fpu_16 structure with a size of only 266 bytes can be used. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.