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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-09-23 15:00:13 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-09-26 09:43:43 +0200
commit7f1487c59b7c6dcb20155f4302985da2659a2997 (patch)
treed1fad1b0468bf6022e86af0cd9e7f68548218767 /arch/x86
parente4a81bfcaae1ebbdc6efe74e8ea563144d90e9a9 (diff)
downloadlinux-7f1487c59b7c6dcb20155f4302985da2659a2997.tar.gz
x86/fpu: Fix stale comments about lazy FPU logic
We don't do any lazy restore anymore, what we have are two pieces of optimization:

 - no-FPU tasks that don't save/restore the FPU context (kernel threads are such)

 - cached FPU registers maintained via the fpu->last_cpu field. This means that
   if an FPU task context switches to a non-FPU task then we can maintain the
   FPU registers as an in-FPU copies (cache), and skip the restoration of them
   once we switch back to the original FPU-using task.

Update all the comments that still referred to old 'lazy' and 'unlazy' concepts.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170923130016.21448-31-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c9
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index c8d6032f04d0..77668d91fdc1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -205,9 +205,6 @@ int fpu__copy(struct fpu *dst_fpu, struct fpu *src_fpu)
 	/*
 	 * Save current FPU registers directly into the child
 	 * FPU context, without any memory-to-memory copying.
-	 * In lazy mode, if the FPU context isn't loaded into
-	 * fpregs, CR0.TS will be set and do_device_not_available
-	 * will load the FPU context.
 	 *
 	 * We have to do all this with preemption disabled,
 	 * mostly because of the FNSAVE case, because in that
@@ -285,13 +282,13 @@ void fpu__activate_fpstate_read(struct fpu *fpu)
 /*
  * This function must be called before we write a task's fpstate.
  *
- * If the task has used the FPU before then unlazy it.
+ * If the task has used the FPU before then invalidate any cached FPU registers.
  * If the task has not used the FPU before then initialize its fpstate.
  *
  * After this function call, after registers in the fpstate are
  * modified and the child task has woken up, the child task will
  * restore the modified FPU state from the modified context. If we
- * didn't clear its lazy status here then the lazy in-registers
+ * didn't clear its cached status here then the cached in-registers
  * state pending on its former CPU could be restored, corrupting
  * the modifications.
  */
@@ -304,7 +301,7 @@ void fpu__activate_fpstate_write(struct fpu *fpu)
 	WARN_ON_FPU(fpu == &current->thread.fpu);
 
 	if (fpu->initialized) {
-		/* Invalidate any lazy state: */
+		/* Invalidate any cached state: */
 		__fpu_invalidate_fpregs_state(fpu);
 	} else {
 		fpstate_init(&fpu->state);