From 37a8f7c38339b22b69876d6f5a0ab851565284e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 10:38:50 -0800 Subject: x86/asm: Move 'status' from thread_struct to thread_info The TS_COMPAT bit is very hot and is accessed from code paths that mostly also touch thread_info::flags. Move it into struct thread_info to improve cache locality. The only reason it was in thread_struct is that there was a brief period during which arch-specific fields were not allowed in struct thread_info. Linus suggested further changing: ti->status &= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED); to: if (unlikely(ti->status & (TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED))) ti->status &= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED); on the theory that frequently dirtying the cacheline even in pure 64-bit code that never needs to modify status hurts performance. That could be a reasonable followup patch, but I suspect it matters less on top of this patch. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Kernel Hardening Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/03148bcc1b217100e6e8ecf6a5468c45cf4304b6.1517164461.git.luto@kernel.org --- arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index c75466232016..9eb448c7859d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static void __set_personality_x32(void) * Pretend to come from a x32 execve. */ task_pt_regs(current)->orig_ax = __NR_x32_execve | __X32_SYSCALL_BIT; - current->thread.status &= ~TS_COMPAT; + current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_COMPAT; #endif } @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ static void __set_personality_ia32(void) current->personality |= force_personality32; /* Prepare the first "return" to user space */ task_pt_regs(current)->orig_ax = __NR_ia32_execve; - current->thread.status |= TS_COMPAT; + current_thread_info()->status |= TS_COMPAT; #endif } -- cgit