fpu__copy() has a preempt_disable()/enable() pair, which it had to do to be able to atomically unlazy the current task when doing an FNSAVE.
But we don't unlazy tasks anymore, we always do direct saves/restores of FPU context. So remove both the unnecessary critical section, and update the comments. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Eric Biggers <[email protected]> Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 15 +++------------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c index 4acfc0ebc160..e935f8faf287 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c @@ -206,22 +206,13 @@ 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. * - * We have to do all this with preemption disabled, - * mostly because of the FNSAVE case, because in that - * case we must not allow preemption in the window - * between the FNSAVE and us marking the context lazy. - * - * It shouldn't be an issue as even FNSAVE is plenty - * fast in terms of critical section length. + * ( The function 'fails' in the FNSAVE case, which destroys + * register contents so we have to copy them back. ) */ - preempt_disable(); if (!copy_fpregs_to_fpstate(dst_fpu)) { - memcpy(&src_fpu->state, &dst_fpu->state, - fpu_kernel_xstate_size); - + memcpy(&src_fpu->state, &dst_fpu->state, fpu_kernel_xstate_size); copy_kernel_to_fpregs(&src_fpu->state); } - preempt_enable(); trace_x86_fpu_copy_src(src_fpu); trace_x86_fpu_copy_dst(dst_fpu); -- 2.11.0
