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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2021-06-23 14:02:00 +0200
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2021-06-23 18:29:41 +0200
commit08ded2cd18a09749e67a14426aa7fd1b04ab1dc0 (patch)
treecf46a31c1b58712349b0e5c8a7e5dad06b310659 /tools/perf/scripts/python
parentebe7234b08a42d69bae94c4062a84777ea26ef99 (diff)
x86/fpu: Get rid of the FNSAVE optimization
The FNSAVE support requires conditionals in quite some call paths because FNSAVE reinitializes the FPU hardware. If the save has to preserve the FPU register state then the caller has to conditionally restore it from memory when FNSAVE is in use. This also requires a conditional in context switch because the restore avoidance optimization cannot work with FNSAVE. As this only affects 20+ years old CPUs there is really no reason to keep this optimization effective for FNSAVE. It's about time to not optimize for antiques anymore. Just unconditionally FRSTOR the save content to the registers and clean up the conditionals all over the place. Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210623121454.617369268@linutronix.de
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