linux/arch
Linus Torvalds 7e16838d94 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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-20 10:58:54 -08:00
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alpha Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2012-01-11 18:50:26 -08:00
arm These are the bug fixes that have accumulated since 3.3-rc3 in arm-soc. 2012-02-18 15:40:00 -08:00
avr32 avr32: select generic atomic64_t support 2012-02-03 16:16:40 -08:00
blackfin Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2012-01-11 18:50:26 -08:00
c6x
cris lib: use generic pci_iomap on all architectures 2012-01-10 18:04:27 -08:00
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hexagon
ia64 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-01-18 15:51:48 -08:00
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microblaze Revert "microblaze: Add topology init" 2012-01-31 09:06:52 +01:00
mips mips: use the the PCI controller's io_map_base 2012-01-31 23:20:30 +02:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers 2012-01-14 18:03:30 -08:00
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parisc parisc, exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS) 2012-01-12 20:13:04 -08:00
powerpc powerpc/perf: power_pmu_start restores incorrect values, breaking frequency events 2012-02-16 16:24:35 +11:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2012-01-30 09:02:10 -08:00
score score: fix off-by-one index into syscall table 2012-01-23 08:38:49 -08:00
sh sh: use the the PCI channels's io_map_base 2012-01-31 23:21:19 +02:00
sparc lib: Fix multiple definitions of clz_tab 2012-02-02 10:34:23 +11:00
tile Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers 2012-01-14 18:03:30 -08:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit 2012-01-17 16:41:31 -08:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2012-01-11 18:50:26 -08:00
x86 i387: support lazy restore of FPU state 2012-02-20 10:58:54 -08:00
xtensa xtensa: fix memscan() 2012-02-03 16:16:40 -08:00
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Kconfig mm,x86,um: move CMPXCHG_DOUBLE config option 2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00