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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 /include/asm-x86/thread_info_64.h
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 'include/asm-x86/thread_info_64.h')
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diff --git a/include/asm-x86/thread_info_64.h b/include/asm-x86/thread_info_64.h
index b17f5f6c2c59..ed664e874dec 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/thread_info_64.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/thread_info_64.h
@@ -85,8 +85,6 @@ static inline struct thread_info *stack_thread_info(void)
85#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \ 85#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \
86 ((struct thread_info *)__get_free_pages(THREAD_FLAGS, THREAD_ORDER)) 86 ((struct thread_info *)__get_free_pages(THREAD_FLAGS, THREAD_ORDER))
87 87
88#define free_thread_info(ti) free_pages((unsigned long) (ti), THREAD_ORDER)
89
90#else /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ 88#else /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
91 89
92/* how to get the thread information struct from ASM */ 90/* how to get the thread information struct from ASM */