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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: broonie@kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, daniel.kiss@arm.com,
	david.spickett@arm.com, luis.machado@arm.com,
	mark.rutland@arm.com, maz@kernel.org, richard.sandiford@arm.com,
	sander.desmalen@arm.com, tabba@google.com, tamas.petz@arm.com,
	tkjos@google.com, will@kernel.org, yury.khrustalev@arm.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 10/24] arm64/fpsimd: Remove redundant task->mm check
Date: Thu,  8 May 2025 14:26:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250508132644.1395904-11-mark.rutland@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250508132644.1395904-1-mark.rutland@arm.com>

For historical reasons, arch_dup_task_struct() only calls
fpsimd_preserve_current_state() when current->mm is non-NULL, but this
is no longer necessary.

Historically TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE was only managed for user threads, and
was never set for kernel threads. At the time, various functions
attempted to avoid saving/restoring state for kernel threads by checking
task_struct::mm to try to distinguish user threads from kernel threads.

We added the current->mm check to arch_dup_task_struct() in commit:

  6eb6c80187c5 ("arm64: kernel thread don't need to save fpsimd context.")

... where the intent was to avoid pointlessly saving state for kernel
threads, which never had live state (and the saved state would never be
consumed).

Subsequently we began setting TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE for kernel threads,
and removed most of the task_struct::mm checks in commit:

  df3fb9682045 ("arm64: fpsimd: Eliminate task->mm checks")

... but we missed the check in arch_dup_task_struct(), which is similarly
redundant.

Remove the redundant check from arch_dup_task_struct().

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index 42faebb7b7123..885c1adcf54ca 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -344,8 +344,7 @@ void arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
 int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
 {
-	if (current->mm)
-		fpsimd_preserve_current_state();
+	fpsimd_preserve_current_state();
 	*dst = *src;
 
 	/*
-- 
2.30.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-05-08 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-08 13:26 [PATCH v2 00/24] arm64: FPSIMD/SVE/SME fixes + re-enable SME Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 01/24] arm64/fpsimd: Do not discard modified SVE state Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 15:02   ` Will Deacon
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 02/24] arm64/fpsimd: signal: Clear PSTATE.SM when restoring FPSIMD frame only Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 03/24] arm64/fpsimd: signal: Mandate SVE payload for streaming-mode state Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 04/24] arm64/fpsimd: signal: Consistently read FPSIMD context Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 14:34   ` Will Deacon
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 05/24] arm64/fpsimd: ptrace: Consistently handle partial writes to NT_ARM_(S)SVE Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 06/24] arm64/fpsimd: Clarify sve_sync_*() functions Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 07/24] arm64/fpsimd: Factor out {sve,sme}_state_size() helpers Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 08/24] arm64/fpsimd: Add task_smstop_sm() Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 09/24] arm64/fpsimd: signal: Use SMSTOP behaviour in setup_return() Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 11/24] arm64/fpsimd: Consistently preserve FPSIMD state during clone() Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 12/24] arm64/fpsimd: Clear PSTATE.SM " Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 13/24] arm64/fpsimd: Make clone() compatible with ZA lazy saving Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 14/24] arm64/fpsimd: ptrace/prctl: Ensure VL changes do not resurrect stale data Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 15/24] arm64/fpsimd: ptrace/prctl: Ensure VL changes leave task in a valid state Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 16/24] arm64/fpsimd: ptrace: Save task state before generating SVE header Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 17/24] arm64/fpsimd: ptrace: Do not present register data for inactive mode Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 18/24] arm64/fpsimd: ptrace: Mandate SVE payload for streaming-mode state Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 19/24] arm64/fpsimd: ptrace: Gracefully handle errors Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 20/24] arm64/fpsimd: Allow CONFIG_ARM64_SME to be selected Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 21/24] kselftest/arm64: fp-ptrace: Fix expected FPMR value when PSTATE.SM is changed Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 22/24] kselftest/arm64: tpidr2: Adjust to new clone() behaviour Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 23/24] kselftest/arm64: fp-ptrace: Adjust to new VL change behaviour Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 24/24] kselftest/arm64: fp-ptrace: Adjust to new inactive mode behaviour Mark Rutland
2025-05-08 15:02 ` [PATCH v2 00/24] arm64: FPSIMD/SVE/SME fixes + re-enable SME Will Deacon

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