[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | accelerated: clear AVX bits if it cannot be queried through XSAVE (!1631)

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Daiki Ueno commented on a discussion on lib/accelerated/x86/x86-common.c: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1631#note_1066051813

>  {
>  	uint32_t xcr0;
>  
> -	if ((ecx & OSXSAVE_MASK) != OSXSAVE_MASK)
> +	if ((ecx & bit_OSXSAVE) != bit_OSXSAVE)

This check is to detect support for `xgetbv`, which we use on the following line. We could check MOVBE here, but it can be detected independently on XSAVE, so I guess we should move the check to `check_avx_movbe` (it's currently missing; good catch).

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