x86/fpu: Optimize fpu_copy() some more on lazy switching systems
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:08:39 +0000 (10:08 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 19 May 2015 13:47:54 +0000 (15:47 +0200)
commitb16529004f5cc0debf8073d21b560a4677a03a2a
tree9067523005576227e5239518aad48d42029c2872
parent68271c6ae726d7ab51e39b7342c838761bf0a25c
x86/fpu: Optimize fpu_copy() some more on lazy switching systems

The current fpu_copy() code on lazy switching CPUs always saves
into the current fpstate and then copies it over into the child
context:

preempt_disable();
if (!copy_fpregs_to_fpstate(src_fpu))
fpregs_deactivate(src_fpu);
preempt_enable();
memcpy(&dst_fpu->state, &src_fpu->state, xstate_size);

That memcpy() can be avoided on all lazy switching setups except
really old FNSAVE-only systems: change fpu_copy() to directly save
into the child context, for both the lazy and the eager context
switching case.

Note that we still have to do a memcpy() back into the parent
context in the FNSAVE case, but this won't be executed on the
majority of x86 systems that got built in the last 10 years or so.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
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