core, x86: Add user return notifiers

Add a general per-cpu notifier that is called whenever the kernel is
about to return to userspace.  The notifier uses a thread_info flag
and existing checks, so there is no impact on user return or context
switch fast paths.

This will be used initially to speed up KVM task switching by lazily
updating MSRs.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253342422-13811-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
index 6a44a76055ad..c49f90f7957a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/stddef.h>
 #include <linux/personality.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/user-return-notifier.h>
 
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/ucontext.h>
@@ -872,6 +873,8 @@ do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs, void *unused, __u32 thread_info_flags)
                 if (current->replacement_session_keyring)
                         key_replace_session_keyring();
         }
+        if (thread_info_flags & _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY)
+                fire_user_return_notifiers();
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
         clear_thread_flag(TIF_IRET);