From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755638Ab2DPWKJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:10:09 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:17316 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755573Ab2DPWJ7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:09:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:09:25 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Chuck Ebbert , Jan Kratochvil , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] i387: ptrace breaks the lazy-fpu-restore logic Message-ID: <20120416220925.GA29434@redhat.com> References: <20120414235238.GA11131@redhat.com> <20120415223808.GA26214@redhat.com> <20120416204756.GA24884@redhat.com> <20120416204815.GB24884@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120416204815.GB24884@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Damn, I forgot to add Cc: # 3.3 On 04/16, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Starting from 7e16838d "i387: support lazy restore of FPU state" > we assume that fpu_owner_task doesn't need restore_fpu_checking() > on the context switch, its FPU state should match what we already > have in the FPU on this CPU. > > However, debugger can change the tracee's FPU state, in this case > we should reset fpu.last_cpu to ensure fpu_lazy_restore() can't > return true. > > Change init_fpu() to do this, it is called by user_regset->set() > methods. > > Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov > --- > arch/x86/kernel/i387.c | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c > index 7734bcb..2d6e649 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c > @@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ int init_fpu(struct task_struct *tsk) > if (tsk_used_math(tsk)) { > if (HAVE_HWFP && tsk == current) > unlazy_fpu(tsk); > + tsk->thread.fpu.last_cpu = ~0; > return 0; > } > > -- > 1.5.5.1 >