linux/arch/x86
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
..
boot x86/boot-image: Don't leak phdrs in arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c::Parse_elf() 2012-01-26 11:30:29 +01:00
configs iommu: Rename the DMAR and INTR_REMAP config options 2011-09-21 10:22:03 +02:00
crypto crypto: serpent-sse2 - remove unneeded LRW/XTS #ifdefs 2011-12-20 15:20:08 +08:00
ia32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit 2012-01-17 16:41:31 -08:00
include/asm i387: support lazy restore of FPU state 2012-02-20 10:58:54 -08:00
kernel i387: support lazy restore of FPU state 2012-02-20 10:58:54 -08:00
kvm i387: move TS_USEDFPU flag from thread_info to task_struct 2012-02-18 10:19:41 -08:00
lguest lguest: Make sure interrupt is allocated ok by lguest_setup_irq 2012-01-12 15:44:47 +10:30
lib Merge branches 'sched-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-19 14:53:06 -08:00
math-emu
mm Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus', 'sched-urgent-for-linus' and 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-02-02 11:11:13 -08:00
net net: bpf_jit: fix divide by 0 generation 2012-01-18 16:04:26 -05:00
oprofile Merge branch 'core' of git://amd64.org/linux/rric into perf/core 2011-11-15 11:05:18 +01:00
pci xen pvhvm: do not remap pirqs onto evtchns if !xen_have_vector_callback 2012-02-03 16:06:27 -05:00
platform x86/uv: Fix uninitialized spinlocks 2012-01-26 10:58:34 +01:00
power x86: Fix files explicitly requiring export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE 2011-10-31 19:30:35 -04:00
syscalls x86, syscall: Allow syscall offset to be symbolic 2011-11-18 17:01:19 -08:00
tools x86/tools: Add decoded instruction dump mode 2011-12-05 14:53:23 +01:00
um uml: fix compile for x86-64 2012-01-18 19:26:11 -08:00
vdso Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-10-28 05:03:12 -07:00
video x86: fix up files really needing to include module.h 2011-10-31 19:30:36 -04:00
xen xen/smp: Fix CPU online/offline bug triggering a BUG: scheduling while atomic. 2012-02-03 16:05:42 -05:00
.gitignore x86/kprobes: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_sanity to .gitignore 2012-01-16 08:21:59 +01:00
Kbuild
Kconfig x86/numachip: Drop unnecessary conflict with EDAC 2012-01-26 11:03:03 +01:00
Kconfig.cpu mm,x86,um: move CMPXCHG_DOUBLE config option 2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-11 19:13:40 -08:00
Makefile x86: Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h from tables 2011-11-17 13:35:37 -08:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um um: take arch/um/sys-x86 to arch/x86/um 2011-11-02 14:15:05 +01:00