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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/3] i387: support lazy restore of FPU state
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On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 11:48 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:27:00 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] i387: support lazy restore of FPU state
>
> This makes us recognize when we try to restore FPU state that matches
> what we already have in the FPU on this CPU, and avoids the restore
> entirely if so.
>
> To do this, we add two new data fields:
>
> - a percpu 'fpu_owner_task' variable that gets written any time we
> update the "has_fpu" field, and thus acts as a kind of back-pointer
> to the task that owns the CPU. The exception is when we save the FPU
> state as part of a context switch - if the save can keep the FPU
> state around, we leave the 'fpu_owner_task' variable pointing at the
> task whose FP state still remains on the CPU.
>
> - a per-thread 'last_cpu' field, that indicates which CPU that thread
> used its FPU on last. We update this on every context switch
> (writing an invalid CPU number if the last context switch didn't
> leave the FPU in a lazily usable state), so we know that *that*
> thread has done nothing else with the FPU since.
>
> These two fields together can be used when next switching back to the
> task to see if the CPU still matches: if 'fpu_owner_task' matches the
> task we are switching to, we know that no other task (or kernel FPU
> usage) touched the FPU on this CPU in the meantime, and if the current
> CPU number matches the 'last_cpu' field, we know that this thread did no
> other FP work on any other CPU, so the FPU state on the CPU must match
> what was saved on last context switch.
>
> In that case, we can avoid the 'f[x]rstor' entirely, and just clear the
> CR0.TS bit.
>

Reviewing this code, I think we need to set the 'last_cpu' to an invalid
number in the fpu_alloc too. Appended is the patch.
---

From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: x86, fpu: set the last_cpu in fpu_alloc() to an invalid cpu

Initialize the struct fpu's last_cpu in fpu_alloc() to an invalid cpu number,
so that the check in fpu_lazy_restore() will always return false
on the first context-switch in of this new task.

Otherwise, on a fork(), last_cpu of the new task's fpu will be copied from
the parent task and fpu_lazy_restore() can potentially return success wrongly
on the first context-switch in of this new task, leading to fpu corruption.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
index 2479049..58ba656 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
@@ -627,6 +627,7 @@ static inline int fpu_alloc(struct fpu *fpu)
if (!fpu->state)
return -ENOMEM;
WARN_ON((unsigned long)fpu->state & 15);
+ fpu->last_cpu = ~0;
return 0;
}




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