From 7e16838d94b566a17b65231073d179bc04d590c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:27:00 -0800 Subject: i387: support lazy restore of FPU state This makes us recognize when we try to restore FPU state that matches what we already have in the FPU on this CPU, and avoids the restore entirely if so. To do this, we add two new data fields: - a percpu 'fpu_owner_task' variable that gets written any time we update the "has_fpu" field, and thus acts as a kind of back-pointer to the task that owns the CPU. The exception is when we save the FPU state as part of a context switch - if the save can keep the FPU state around, we leave the 'fpu_owner_task' variable pointing at the task whose FP state still remains on the CPU. - a per-thread 'last_cpu' field, that indicates which CPU that thread used its FPU on last. We update this on every context switch (writing an invalid CPU number if the last context switch didn't leave the FPU in a lazily usable state), so we know that *that* thread has done nothing else with the FPU since. These two fields together can be used when next switching back to the task to see if the CPU still matches: if 'fpu_owner_task' matches the task we are switching to, we know that no other task (or kernel FPU usage) touched the FPU on this CPU in the meantime, and if the current CPU number matches the 'last_cpu' field, we know that this thread did no other FP work on any other CPU, so the FPU state on the CPU must match what was saved on last context switch. In that case, we can avoid the 'f[x]rstor' entirely, and just clear the CR0.TS bit. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index d43cad74f16..b667148dfad 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -1044,6 +1044,8 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(char *, irq_stack_ptr) = DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, irq_count) = -1; +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, fpu_owner_task); + /* * Special IST stacks which the CPU switches to when it calls * an IST-marked descriptor entry. Up to 7 stacks (hardware -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From 27e74da9800289e69ba907777df1e2085231eff7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:34:10 -0800 Subject: i387: export 'fpu_owner_task' per-cpu variable (And define it properly for x86-32, which had its 'current_task' declaration in separate from x86-64) Bitten by my dislike for modules on the machines I use, and the fact that apparently nobody else actually wanted to test the patches I sent out. Snif. Nobody else cares. Anyway, we probably should uninline the 'kernel_fpu_begin()' function that is what modules actually use and that references this, but this is the minimal fix for now. Reported-by: Josh Boyer Reported-and-tested-by: Jongman Heo Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index b667148dfad..c0f7d68d318 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -1045,6 +1045,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(char *, irq_stack_ptr) = DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, irq_count) = -1; DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, fpu_owner_task); +EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(fpu_owner_task); /* * Special IST stacks which the CPU switches to when it calls @@ -1113,6 +1114,8 @@ void debug_stack_reset(void) DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, current_task) = &init_task; EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(current_task); +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, fpu_owner_task); +EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(fpu_owner_task); #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct stack_canary, stack_canary); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2