Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:32:10 +0100 | | From | Tim Blechmann <> | | Subject | [PATCH] Revert "sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to()" |
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This reverts commit a3a1de0c34de6f5f8332cd6151c46af7813c0fcb.
Commit 8ec6993d9f7d961014af970ded57542961fe9ad9 cleared the es and ds selectors, so the original branch hints are correct now. Therefore the branch hint doesn't need to be removed.
Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> --- arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index 93c501d..eb62cbc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -406,10 +406,11 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p) * This won't pick up thread selector changes, but I guess that is ok. */ savesegment(es, prev->es); - if (next->es | prev->es) + if (unlikely(next->es | prev->es)) loadsegment(es, next->es); + savesegment(ds, prev->ds); - if (next->ds | prev->ds) + if (unlikely(next->ds | prev->ds)) loadsegment(ds, next->ds);
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