From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: [patch 08/12] syslets: x86, add move_user_context() method
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:42:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070228214204.GH2305@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070228213938.GA945@elte.hu>
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
add the move_user_context() method to move the user-space
context of one kernel thread to another kernel thread.
User-space might notice the changed TID, but execution,
stack and register contents (general purpose and FPU) are
still the same.
An architecture must implement this interface before it can turn
CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT on.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---
arch/i386/kernel/process.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
include/asm-i386/system.h | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
@@ -839,6 +839,27 @@ unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_stru
}
/*
+ * Move user-space context from one kernel thread to another.
+ * This includes registers and FPU state. Callers must make
+ * sure that neither task is running user context at the moment:
+ */
+void
+move_user_context(struct task_struct *new_task, struct task_struct *old_task)
+{
+ struct pt_regs *old_regs = task_pt_regs(old_task);
+ struct pt_regs *new_regs = task_pt_regs(new_task);
+ union i387_union *tmp;
+
+ *new_regs = *old_regs;
+ /*
+ * Flip around the FPU state too:
+ */
+ tmp = new_task->thread.i387;
+ new_task->thread.i387 = old_task->thread.i387;
+ old_task->thread.i387 = tmp;
+}
+
+/*
* sys_alloc_thread_area: get a yet unused TLS descriptor index.
*/
static int get_free_idx(void)
Index: linux/include/asm-i386/system.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-i386/system.h
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/system.h
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ extern struct task_struct * FASTCALL(__s
"2" (prev), "d" (next)); \
} while (0)
+/*
+ * Move user-space context from one kernel thread to another.
+ * This includes registers and FPU state for now:
+ */
+extern void
+move_user_context(struct task_struct *new_task, struct task_struct *old_task);
+
#define _set_base(addr,base) do { unsigned long __pr; \
__asm__ __volatile__ ("movw %%dx,%1\n\t" \
"rorl $16,%%edx\n\t" \
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-28 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-28 21:39 [patch 00/12] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v5 Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28 21:41 ` [patch 01/12] syslets: add async.h include file, kernel-side API definitions Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28 21:41 ` [patch 02/12] syslets: add syslet.h include file, user API/ABI definitions Ingo Molnar
2007-03-01 3:05 ` Kevin O'Connor
2007-03-01 9:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28 21:41 ` [patch 03/12] syslets: generic kernel bits Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28 21:41 ` [patch 04/12] syslets: core code Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28 21:41 ` [patch 05/12] syslets: core, documentation Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28 21:41 ` [patch 06/12] x86: split FPU state from task state Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28 21:42 ` [patch 07/12] syslets: x86, add create_async_thread() method Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28 21:42 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-02-28 21:42 ` [patch 09/12] syslets: x86, mark async unsafe syscalls Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28 21:42 ` [patch 10/12] syslets: x86: enable ASYNC_SUPPORT Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28 21:42 ` [patch 11/12] syslets: x86, wire up the syslet system calls Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28 21:42 ` [patch 12/12] syslets: x86_64: add syslet/threadlet support Ingo Molnar
2007-03-01 9:36 ` [patch 00/12] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v5 Stephen Rothwell
2007-03-07 20:10 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-13 7:05 ` Milton Miller
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