x86: Avoid unnecessary __clear_user() and xrstor in signal handling

fxsave/xsave doesn't touch all the bytes in the memory layout used by
these instructions. Specifically SW reserved (bytes 464..511) fields
in the fxsave frame and the reserved fields in the xsave header.

To present a clean context for the signal handling, just clear these fields
instead of clearing the complete fxsave/xsave memory layout, when we dump these
registers directly to the user signal frame.

Also avoid the call to second xrstor (which inits the state not passed
in the signal frame) in restore_user_xstate() if all the state has already
been restored by the first xrstor.

These changes improve the performance of signal handling(by ~3-5% as measured
by the lat_sig).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1277249017.2847.85.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
index 37e68fc5e24a..6e73db1b7b4e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
@@ -91,14 +91,6 @@ int save_i387_xstate(void __user *buf)
                 return 0;
 
         if (task_thread_info(tsk)->status & TS_USEDFPU) {
-                /*
-                 * Start with clearing the user buffer. This will present a
-                 * clean context for the bytes not touched by the fxsave/xsave.
-                 */
-                err = __clear_user(buf, sig_xstate_size);
-                if (err)
-                        return err;
-
                 if (use_xsave())
                         err = xsave_user(buf);
                 else
@@ -184,8 +176,8 @@ static int restore_user_xstate(void __user *buf)
          * init the state skipped by the user.
          */
         mask = pcntxt_mask & ~mask;
-
-        xrstor_state(init_xstate_buf, mask);
+        if (unlikely(mask))
+                xrstor_state(init_xstate_buf, mask);
 
         return 0;