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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/traps_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/traps_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c
index 6d883b13ef4f..dc0cb497eec3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c
@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ asmlinkage void math_state_restore(void)
1128 1128
1129 if (!used_math()) 1129 if (!used_math())
1130 init_fpu(me); 1130 init_fpu(me);
1131 restore_fpu_checking(&me->thread.i387.fxsave); 1131 restore_fpu_checking(&me->thread.xstate->fxsave);
1132 task_thread_info(me)->status |= TS_USEDFPU; 1132 task_thread_info(me)->status |= TS_USEDFPU;
1133 me->fpu_counter++; 1133 me->fpu_counter++;
1134} 1134}
@@ -1164,6 +1164,10 @@ void __init trap_init(void)
1164#endif 1164#endif
1165 1165
1166 /* 1166 /*
1167 * initialize the per thread extended state:
1168 */
1169 init_thread_xstate();
1170 /*
1167 * Should be a barrier for any external CPU state. 1171 * Should be a barrier for any external CPU state.
1168 */ 1172 */
1169 cpu_init(); 1173 cpu_init();