From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: riel@redhat.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, sbsiddha@gmail.com,
luto@amacapital.net, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@kernel.org,
hpa@zytor.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] x86,fpu: use disable_task_lazy_fpu_restore helper
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:04:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150217110405.GC22233@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150217090041.GB9784@pd.tnic>
On 02/17, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 03:02:04PM -0500, riel@redhat.com wrote:
> > From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> >
> > Replace magic assignments of fpu.last_cpu = ~0 with more explicit
> > disable_task_lazy_fpu_restore calls.
> >
> > This also fixes the lazy FPU restore disabling in drop_fpu, which
> > only really works when !use_eager_fpu(). This is fine for now,
> > because fpu_lazy_restore() is only used when !use_eager_fpu()
> > currently, but we may want to expand that.
>
> Sorry, I can't follow here. The only non-trivial change below is in
> arch_dup_task_struct(). Please clarify.
I guess Rik forgot to update the changelog ;)
Initial version of this patch played with drop_fpu() as well, this part
was removed after discussion. So I guess the last sentence in the changelog
should go away too.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-17 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-06 20:01 [PATCH 0/8] x86,fpu: various small FPU cleanups and optimizations riel
2015-02-06 20:01 ` [PATCH 1/8] x86, fpu: unlazy_fpu: don't reset thread.fpu_counter riel
2015-02-16 17:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-16 17:58 ` Rik van Riel
2015-02-16 18:14 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-16 18:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-19 11:32 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86/fpu: Don't " tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-06 20:01 ` [PATCH 2/8] x86, fpu: unlazy_fpu: don't do __thread_fpu_end() if use_eager_fpu() riel
2015-02-16 20:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-17 10:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-17 12:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-19 11:32 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86/fpu: Don't " tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-06 20:02 ` [PATCH 3/8] x86, fpu: kill save_init_fpu(), change math_error() to use unlazy_fpu() riel
2015-02-16 21:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-16 21:30 ` Rik van Riel
2015-02-17 10:58 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-19 11:32 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86/fpu: Change math_error() to use unlazy_fpu(), kill (now) unused save_init_fpu() tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-06 20:02 ` [PATCH 4/8] x86,fpu: move lazy restore functions up a few lines riel
2015-02-19 11:33 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86/fpu: Move " tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2015-02-06 20:02 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86,fpu: introduce task_disable_lazy_fpu_restore helper riel
2015-02-19 11:33 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86/fpu: Introduce task_disable_lazy_fpu_restore() helper tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2015-02-06 20:02 ` [PATCH 6/8] x86,fpu: use an explicit if/else in switch_fpu_prepare riel
2015-02-17 8:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-19 11:33 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86/fpu: Use an explicit if/ else in switch_fpu_prepare() tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2015-02-06 20:02 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86,fpu: use disable_task_lazy_fpu_restore helper riel
2015-02-17 9:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-17 11:04 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2015-02-17 12:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-19 11:34 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86/fpu: Use task_disable_lazy_fpu_restore() helper tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2015-02-06 20:02 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86,fpu: also check fpu_lazy_restore when use_eager_fpu riel
2015-02-19 11:34 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86/fpu: Also check fpu_lazy_restore() when use_eager_fpu() tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2015-02-16 15:26 ` [PATCH 0/8] x86,fpu: various small FPU cleanups and optimizations Rik van Riel
2015-02-16 16:00 ` Borislav Petkov
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