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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-09-23 15:00:14 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-09-26 09:43:44 +0200
commite10078eba69859359ce8644dd423b4132a6a8913 (patch)
treedb0aadc1cbc41c2690877954ed396dcdec85a860 /arch/x86/kernel/fpu
parent7f1487c59b7c6dcb20155f4302985da2659a2997 (diff)
x86/fpu: Simplify and speed up fpu__copy()
fpu__copy() has a preempt_disable()/enable() pair, which it had to do to be able to atomically unlazy the current task when doing an FNSAVE. But we don't unlazy tasks anymore, we always do direct saves/restores of FPU context. So remove both the unnecessary critical section, and update the comments. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170923130016.21448-32-mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/fpu')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c15
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index 77668d91fdc1..52122dd418ae 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -206,22 +206,13 @@ int fpu__copy(struct fpu *dst_fpu, struct fpu *src_fpu)
* Save current FPU registers directly into the child
* FPU context, without any memory-to-memory copying.
*
- * We have to do all this with preemption disabled,
- * mostly because of the FNSAVE case, because in that
- * case we must not allow preemption in the window
- * between the FNSAVE and us marking the context lazy.
- *
- * It shouldn't be an issue as even FNSAVE is plenty
- * fast in terms of critical section length.
+ * ( The function 'fails' in the FNSAVE case, which destroys
+ * register contents so we have to copy them back. )
*/
- preempt_disable();
if (!copy_fpregs_to_fpstate(dst_fpu)) {
- memcpy(&src_fpu->state, &dst_fpu->state,
- fpu_kernel_xstate_size);
-
+ memcpy(&src_fpu->state, &dst_fpu->state, fpu_kernel_xstate_size);
copy_kernel_to_fpregs(&src_fpu->state);
}
- preempt_enable();
trace_x86_fpu_copy_src(src_fpu);
trace_x86_fpu_copy_dst(dst_fpu);