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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2008-03-10 18:28:04 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-19 13:19:55 -0400
commit61c4628b538608c1a85211ed8438136adfeb9a95 (patch)
tree290a695299a363153bc692e6d705ac680d64359e /arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
parentfa5c4639419668cbb18ca3d20c1253559a3b43ae (diff)
x86, fpu: split FPU state from task struct - v5
Split the FPU save area from the task struct. This allows easy migration of FPU context, and it's generally cleaner. It also allows the following two optimizations: 1) only allocate when the application actually uses FPU, so in the first lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps. Next patch does this lazy allocation. 2) allocate the right size for the actual cpu rather than 512 bytes always. Patches enabling xsave/xrstor support (coming shortly) will take advantage of this. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 4c13b1406c70..b795e831afd6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
682 682
683 /* we're going to use this soon, after a few expensive things */ 683 /* we're going to use this soon, after a few expensive things */
684 if (next_p->fpu_counter>5) 684 if (next_p->fpu_counter>5)
685 prefetch(&next->i387.fxsave); 685 prefetch(next->xstate);
686 686
687 /* 687 /*
688 * Reload esp0, LDT and the page table pointer: 688 * Reload esp0, LDT and the page table pointer: