x86/math-emu: Limit MATH_EMULATION to 486SX compatibles

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The FPU emulation code is old and fragile in places, try to limit its
use to builds for CPUs that actually use it. As far as I can tell,
this is only true for i486sx compatibles, including the Cyrix 486SLC,
AMD Am486SX and ÉLAN SC410, UMC U5S amd DM&P VortexSX86, all of which
were relatively short-lived and got replaced with i486DX compatible
processors soon after introduction, though some of the embedded versions
remained available much longer.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bill Metzenthen <billm@melbpc.org.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191001142344.1274185-2-arnd@arndb.de

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Arnd Bergmann 2019-10-01 16:23:35 +02:00 • committed by Borislav Petkov

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