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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2012-12-12T20:22:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T20:22:13+00:00</published>
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Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/-&gt;load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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<pre>
Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/-&gt;load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, um: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone</title>
<updated>2012-11-29T03:13:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-23T02:34:11+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Remove dead hlt_use_halt code</title>
<updated>2012-10-26T10:25:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Lezcano</name>
<email>daniel.lezcano@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-25T16:13:11+00:00</published>
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The hlt_use_halt function returns always true and there is only
one definition of it.

The default_idle function can then get ride of the if ...
statement and we can remove the else branch.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
Cc: patches@linaro.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351181591-8710-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The hlt_use_halt function returns always true and there is only
one definition of it.

The default_idle function can then get ride of the if ...
statement and we can remove the else branch.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
Cc: patches@linaro.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351181591-8710-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2012-10-10T03:02:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-10T03:02:25+00:00</published>
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Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro:
 "This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve()
  functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits)
  s390: convert to generic kernel_execve()
  s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()
  s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()
  um: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
  x86: split ret_from_fork
  alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  alpha: switch to generic sys_execve()
  arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation
  arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
  arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
  generic sys_execve()
  generic kernel_execve()
  new helper: current_pt_regs()
  preparation for generic kernel_thread()
  um: kill thread-&gt;forking
  um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler
  ...
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<pre>
Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro:
 "This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve()
  functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits)
  s390: convert to generic kernel_execve()
  s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()
  s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()
  um: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
  x86: split ret_from_fork
  alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  alpha: switch to generic sys_execve()
  arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation
  arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
  arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
  generic sys_execve()
  generic kernel_execve()
  new helper: current_pt_regs()
  preparation for generic kernel_thread()
  um: kill thread-&gt;forking
  um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve</title>
<updated>2012-10-01T02:53:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-02T19:05:11+00:00</published>
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32bit wrapper is lost on that; 64bit one is *not*, since
we need to arrange for full pt_regs on stack when we call
sys_execve() and we need to load callee-saved ones from
there afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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32bit wrapper is lost on that; 64bit one is *not*, since
we need to arrange for full pt_regs on stack when we call
sys_execve() and we need to load callee-saved ones from
there afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: split ret_from_fork</title>
<updated>2012-10-01T02:53:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-10T20:44:54+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: get rid of TIF_IRET hackery</title>
<updated>2012-09-20T13:50:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-02T18:12:06+00:00</published>
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TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME will work in precisely the same way; all that
is achieved by TIF_IRET is appearing that there's some work to be
done, so we end up on the iret exit path.  Just use NOTIFY_RESUME.
And for execve() do that in 32bit start_thread(), not sys_execve()
itself.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME will work in precisely the same way; all that
is achieved by TIF_IRET is appearing that there's some work to be
done, so we end up on the iret exit path.  Just use NOTIFY_RESUME.
And for execve() do that in 32bit start_thread(), not sys_execve()
itself.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T22:52:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-06T21:58:52+00:00</published>
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Decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore policy from the existence of the xsave
feature. Introduce a synthetic CPUID flag to represent the eagerfpu
policy. "eagerfpu=on" boot paramter will enable the policy.

Requested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Requested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore policy from the existence of the xsave
feature. Introduce a synthetic CPUID flag to represent the eagerfpu
policy. "eagerfpu=on" boot paramter will enable the policy.

Requested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Requested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T22:52:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-24T21:13:02+00:00</published>
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Fundamental model of the current Linux kernel is to lazily init and
restore FPU instead of restoring the task state during context switch.
This changes that fundamental lazy model to the non-lazy model for
the processors supporting xsave feature.

Reasons driving this model change are:

i. Newer processors support optimized state save/restore using xsaveopt and
xrstor by tracking the INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch.
This is faster than modifying the cr0.TS bit which has serializing semantics.

ii. Newer glibc versions use SSE for some of the optimized copy/clear routines.
With certain workloads (like boot, kernel-compilation etc), application
completes its work with in the first 5 task switches, thus taking upto 5 #DNA
traps with the kernel not getting a chance to apply the above mentioned
pre-load heuristic.

iii. Some xstate features (like AMD's LWP feature) don't honor the cr0.TS bit
and thus will not work correctly in the presence of lazy restore. Non-lazy
state restore is needed for enabling such features.

Some data on a two socket SNB system:
 * Saved 20K DNA exceptions during boot on a two socket SNB system.
 * Saved 50K DNA exceptions during kernel-compilation workload.
 * Improved throughput of the AVX based checksumming function inside the
   kernel by ~15% as xsave/xrstor is faster than the serializing clts/stts
   pair.

Also now kernel_fpu_begin/end() relies on the patched
alternative instructions. So move check_fpu() which uses the
kernel_fpu_begin/end() after alternative_instructions().

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-7-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Merge 32-bit boot fix from,
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: Jim Kukunas &lt;james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Fundamental model of the current Linux kernel is to lazily init and
restore FPU instead of restoring the task state during context switch.
This changes that fundamental lazy model to the non-lazy model for
the processors supporting xsave feature.

Reasons driving this model change are:

i. Newer processors support optimized state save/restore using xsaveopt and
xrstor by tracking the INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch.
This is faster than modifying the cr0.TS bit which has serializing semantics.

ii. Newer glibc versions use SSE for some of the optimized copy/clear routines.
With certain workloads (like boot, kernel-compilation etc), application
completes its work with in the first 5 task switches, thus taking upto 5 #DNA
traps with the kernel not getting a chance to apply the above mentioned
pre-load heuristic.

iii. Some xstate features (like AMD's LWP feature) don't honor the cr0.TS bit
and thus will not work correctly in the presence of lazy restore. Non-lazy
state restore is needed for enabling such features.

Some data on a two socket SNB system:
 * Saved 20K DNA exceptions during boot on a two socket SNB system.
 * Saved 50K DNA exceptions during kernel-compilation workload.
 * Improved throughput of the AVX based checksumming function inside the
   kernel by ~15% as xsave/xrstor is faster than the serializing clts/stts
   pair.

Also now kernel_fpu_begin/end() relies on the patched
alternative instructions. So move check_fpu() which uses the
kernel_fpu_begin/end() after alternative_instructions().

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-7-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Merge 32-bit boot fix from,
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: Jim Kukunas &lt;james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: Unify signal handling code paths for x86 and x86_64 kernels</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T22:51:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-24T23:05:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=72a671ced66db6d1c2bfff1c930a101ac8d08204'/>
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Currently for x86 and x86_32 binaries, fpstate in the user sigframe is copied
to/from the fpstate in the task struct.

And in the case of signal delivery for x86_64 binaries, if the fpstate is live
in the CPU registers, then the live state is copied directly to the user
sigframe. Otherwise  fpstate in the task struct is copied to the user sigframe.
During restore, fpstate in the user sigframe is restored directly to the live
CPU registers.

Historically, different code paths led to different bugs. For example,
x86_64 code path was not preemption safe till recently. Also there is lot
of code duplication for support of new features like xsave etc.

Unify signal handling code paths for x86 and x86_64 kernels.

New strategy is as follows:

Signal delivery: Both for 32/64-bit frames, align the core math frame area to
64bytes as needed by xsave (this where the main fpu/extended state gets copied
to and excludes the legacy compatibility fsave header for the 32-bit [f]xsave
frames). If the state is live, copy the register state directly to the user
frame. If not live, copy the state in the thread struct to the user frame. And
for 32-bit [f]xsave frames, construct the fsave header separately before
the actual [f]xsave area.

Signal return: As the 32-bit frames with [f]xstate has an additional
'fsave' header, copy everything back from the user sigframe to the
fpstate in the task structure and reconstruct the fxstate from the 'fsave'
header (Also user passed pointers may not be correctly aligned for
any attempt to directly restore any partial state). At the next fpstate usage,
everything will be restored to the live CPU registers.
For all the 64-bit frames and the 32-bit fsave frame, restore the state from
the user sigframe directly to the live CPU registers. 64-bit signals always
restored the math frame directly, so we can expect the math frame pointer
to be correctly aligned. For 32-bit fsave frames, there are no alignment
requirements, so we can restore the state directly.

"lat_sig catch" microbenchmark numbers (for x86, x86_64, x86_32 binaries) are
with in the noise range with this change.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343171129-2747-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
[ Merged in compilation fix ]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344544736.8326.17.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Currently for x86 and x86_32 binaries, fpstate in the user sigframe is copied
to/from the fpstate in the task struct.

And in the case of signal delivery for x86_64 binaries, if the fpstate is live
in the CPU registers, then the live state is copied directly to the user
sigframe. Otherwise  fpstate in the task struct is copied to the user sigframe.
During restore, fpstate in the user sigframe is restored directly to the live
CPU registers.

Historically, different code paths led to different bugs. For example,
x86_64 code path was not preemption safe till recently. Also there is lot
of code duplication for support of new features like xsave etc.

Unify signal handling code paths for x86 and x86_64 kernels.

New strategy is as follows:

Signal delivery: Both for 32/64-bit frames, align the core math frame area to
64bytes as needed by xsave (this where the main fpu/extended state gets copied
to and excludes the legacy compatibility fsave header for the 32-bit [f]xsave
frames). If the state is live, copy the register state directly to the user
frame. If not live, copy the state in the thread struct to the user frame. And
for 32-bit [f]xsave frames, construct the fsave header separately before
the actual [f]xsave area.

Signal return: As the 32-bit frames with [f]xstate has an additional
'fsave' header, copy everything back from the user sigframe to the
fpstate in the task structure and reconstruct the fxstate from the 'fsave'
header (Also user passed pointers may not be correctly aligned for
any attempt to directly restore any partial state). At the next fpstate usage,
everything will be restored to the live CPU registers.
For all the 64-bit frames and the 32-bit fsave frame, restore the state from
the user sigframe directly to the live CPU registers. 64-bit signals always
restored the math frame directly, so we can expect the math frame pointer
to be correctly aligned. For 32-bit fsave frames, there are no alignment
requirements, so we can restore the state directly.

"lat_sig catch" microbenchmark numbers (for x86, x86_64, x86_32 binaries) are
with in the noise range with this change.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343171129-2747-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
[ Merged in compilation fix ]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344544736.8326.17.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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