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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2012-05-16 15:03:54 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2012-05-16 15:20:59 -0700
commit1dcc8d7ba235a316a056f993e88f0d18b92c60d9 (patch)
tree0404321ce5a9a8c805f4ead0d2671e9a9227d5c0
parentd75f1b391f5ef73016d14bc6f7e4725820ebaa5b (diff)
x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit
There is no need to save any active fpu state to the task structure memory if the task is dead. Just drop the state instead. For example, this saved some 1770 xsave's during the system boot of a two socket Xeon system. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process.c19
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index b7e1e0e5398..1219fe2be8f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ void arch_task_cache_init(void)
SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_NOTRACK, NULL);
}
+static inline void drop_fpu(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ /*
+ * Forget coprocessor state..
+ */
+ tsk->fpu_counter = 0;
+ clear_fpu(tsk);
+ clear_used_math();
+}
+
/*
* Free current thread data structures etc..
*/
@@ -109,6 +119,8 @@ void exit_thread(void)
put_cpu();
kfree(bp);
}
+
+ drop_fpu(me);
}
void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
@@ -149,12 +161,7 @@ void flush_thread(void)
flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(tsk);
memset(tsk->thread.tls_array, 0, sizeof(tsk->thread.tls_array));
- /*
- * Forget coprocessor state..
- */
- tsk->fpu_counter = 0;
- clear_fpu(tsk);
- clear_used_math();
+ drop_fpu(tsk);
}
static void hard_disable_TSC(void)