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authorRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>2019-04-03 19:41:52 +0300
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2019-04-12 20:34:47 +0300
commit5f409e20b794565e2d60ad333e79334630a6c798 (patch)
treee949893a31c38e5c04caa3c3f6419104be47fd96 /arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
parentc2ff9e9a3d9d6c019394a22989a228d02970a8b1 (diff)
downloadlinux-5f409e20b794565e2d60ad333e79334630a6c798.tar.xz
x86/fpu: Defer FPU state load until return to userspace
Defer loading of FPU state until return to userspace. This gives the kernel the potential to skip loading FPU state for tasks that stay in kernel mode, or for tasks that end up with repeated invocations of kernel_fpu_begin() & kernel_fpu_end(). The fpregs_lock/unlock() section ensures that the registers remain unchanged. Otherwise a context switch or a bottom half could save the registers to its FPU context and the processor's FPU registers would became random if modified at the same time. KVM swaps the host/guest registers on entry/exit path. This flow has been kept as is. First it ensures that the registers are loaded and then saves the current (host) state before it loads the guest's registers. The swap is done at the very end with disabled interrupts so it should not change anymore before theg guest is entered. The read/save version seems to be cheaper compared to memcpy() in a micro benchmark. Each thread gets TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD set as part of fork() / fpu__copy(). For kernel threads, this flag gets never cleared which avoids saving / restoring the FPU state for kernel threads and during in-kernel usage of the FPU registers. [ bp: Correct and update commit message and fix checkpatch warnings. s/register/registers/ where it is used in plural. minor comment corrections. remove unused trace_x86_fpu_activate_state() TP. ] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@intel.com> Cc: Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com> Cc: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190403164156.19645-24-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
index 77d9eb43ccac..1bc47f3a4885 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
@@ -234,7 +234,8 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
/* never put a printk in __switch_to... printk() calls wake_up*() indirectly */
- switch_fpu_prepare(prev_fpu, cpu);
+ if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD))
+ switch_fpu_prepare(prev_fpu, cpu);
/*
* Save away %gs. No need to save %fs, as it was saved on the
@@ -290,7 +291,7 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
this_cpu_write(current_task, next_p);
- switch_fpu_finish(next_fpu, cpu);
+ switch_fpu_finish(next_fpu);
/* Load the Intel cache allocation PQR MSR. */
resctrl_sched_in();