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<title>x86/asm/entry: Get rid of KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET</title>
<updated>2015-03-24T18:42:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denys Vlasenko</name>
<email>dvlasenk@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2015-03-19T17:17:46+00:00</published>
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PER_CPU_VAR(kernel_stack) was set up in a way where it points
five stack slots below the top of stack.

Presumably, it was done to avoid one "sub $5*8,%rsp"
in syscall/sysenter code paths, where iret frame needs to be
created by hand.

Ironically, none of them benefits from this optimization,
since all of them need to allocate additional data on stack
(struct pt_regs), so they still have to perform subtraction.

This patch eliminates KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET.

PER_CPU_VAR(kernel_stack) now points directly to top of stack.
pt_regs allocations are adjusted to allocate iret frame as well.
Hopefully we can merge it later with 32-bit specific
PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_current_top_of_stack) variable...

Net result in generated code is that constants in several insns
are changed.

This change is necessary for changing struct pt_regs creation
in SYSCALL64 code path from MOV to PUSH instructions.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426785469-15125-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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PER_CPU_VAR(kernel_stack) was set up in a way where it points
five stack slots below the top of stack.

Presumably, it was done to avoid one "sub $5*8,%rsp"
in syscall/sysenter code paths, where iret frame needs to be
created by hand.

Ironically, none of them benefits from this optimization,
since all of them need to allocate additional data on stack
(struct pt_regs), so they still have to perform subtraction.

This patch eliminates KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET.

PER_CPU_VAR(kernel_stack) now points directly to top of stack.
pt_regs allocations are adjusted to allocate iret frame as well.
Hopefully we can merge it later with 32-bit specific
PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_current_top_of_stack) variable...

Net result in generated code is that constants in several insns
are changed.

This change is necessary for changing struct pt_regs creation
in SYSCALL64 code path from MOV to PUSH instructions.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426785469-15125-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/asm/entry: Change all 'user_mode_vm()' calls to 'user_mode()'</title>
<updated>2015-03-23T10:14:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-19T01:33:33+00:00</published>
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user_mode_vm() and user_mode() are now the same.  Change all callers
of user_mode_vm() to user_mode().

The next patch will remove the definition of user_mode_vm.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/43b1f57f3df70df5a08b0925897c660725015554.1426728647.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Merged to a more recent kernel. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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user_mode_vm() and user_mode() are now the same.  Change all callers
of user_mode_vm() to user_mode().

The next patch will remove the definition of user_mode_vm.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/43b1f57f3df70df5a08b0925897c660725015554.1426728647.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Merged to a more recent kernel. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm/entry: Fix execve() and sigreturn() syscalls to always return via IRET</title>
<updated>2015-03-23T07:52:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Gerst</name>
<email>brgerst@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-21T22:54:21+00:00</published>
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Both the execve() and sigreturn() family of syscalls have the
ability to change registers in ways that may not be compatabile
with the syscall path they were called from.

In particular, SYSRET and SYSEXIT can't handle non-default %cs and %ss,
and some bits in eflags.

These syscalls have stubs that are hardcoded to jump to the IRET path,
and not return to the original syscall path.

The following commit:

   76f5df43cab5e76 ("Always allocate a complete "struct pt_regs" on the kernel stack")

recently changed this for some 32-bit compat syscalls, but introduced a bug where
execve from a 32-bit program to a 64-bit program would fail because it still returned
via SYSRETL. This caused Wine to fail when built for both 32-bit and 64-bit.

This patch sets TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME for execve() and sigreturn() so
that the IRET path is always taken on exit to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426978461-32089-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
[ Improved the changelog and comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Both the execve() and sigreturn() family of syscalls have the
ability to change registers in ways that may not be compatabile
with the syscall path they were called from.

In particular, SYSRET and SYSEXIT can't handle non-default %cs and %ss,
and some bits in eflags.

These syscalls have stubs that are hardcoded to jump to the IRET path,
and not return to the original syscall path.

The following commit:

   76f5df43cab5e76 ("Always allocate a complete "struct pt_regs" on the kernel stack")

recently changed this for some 32-bit compat syscalls, but introduced a bug where
execve from a 32-bit program to a 64-bit program would fail because it still returned
via SYSRETL. This caused Wine to fail when built for both 32-bit and 64-bit.

This patch sets TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME for execve() and sigreturn() so
that the IRET path is always taken on exit to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426978461-32089-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
[ Improved the changelog and comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm/entry: Replace this_cpu_sp0() with current_top_of_stack() and fix it on x86_32</title>
<updated>2015-03-07T08:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-07T01:50:19+00:00</published>
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I broke 32-bit kernels.  The implementation of sp0 was correct
as far as I can tell, but sp0 was much weirder on x86_32 than I
realized.  It has the following issues:

 - Init's sp0 is inconsistent with everything else's: non-init tasks
   are offset by 8 bytes.  (I have no idea why, and the comment is unhelpful.)

 - vm86 does crazy things to sp0.

Fix it up by replacing this_cpu_sp0() with
current_top_of_stack() and using a new percpu variable to track
the top of the stack on x86_32.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 75182b1632a8 ("x86/asm/entry: Switch all C consumers of kernel_stack to this_cpu_sp0()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d09dbe270883433776e0cbee3c7079433349e96d.1425692936.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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I broke 32-bit kernels.  The implementation of sp0 was correct
as far as I can tell, but sp0 was much weirder on x86_32 than I
realized.  It has the following issues:

 - Init's sp0 is inconsistent with everything else's: non-init tasks
   are offset by 8 bytes.  (I have no idea why, and the comment is unhelpful.)

 - vm86 does crazy things to sp0.

Fix it up by replacing this_cpu_sp0() with
current_top_of_stack() and using a new percpu variable to track
the top of the stack on x86_32.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 75182b1632a8 ("x86/asm/entry: Switch all C consumers of kernel_stack to this_cpu_sp0()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d09dbe270883433776e0cbee3c7079433349e96d.1425692936.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/asm/entry: Delay loading sp0 slightly on task switch</title>
<updated>2015-03-07T08:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-07T01:50:18+00:00</published>
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The change:

  75182b1632a8 ("x86/asm/entry: Switch all C consumers of kernel_stack to this_cpu_sp0()")

had the unintended side effect of changing the return value of
current_thread_info() during part of the context switch process.
Change it back.

This has no effect as far as I can tell -- it's just for
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9fcaa47dd8487db59eed7a3911b6ae409476763e.1425692936.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The change:

  75182b1632a8 ("x86/asm/entry: Switch all C consumers of kernel_stack to this_cpu_sp0()")

had the unintended side effect of changing the return value of
current_thread_info() during part of the context switch process.
Change it back.

This has no effect as far as I can tell -- it's just for
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9fcaa47dd8487db59eed7a3911b6ae409476763e.1425692936.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm/entry: Rename 'init_tss' to 'cpu_tss'</title>
<updated>2015-03-06T07:32:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-06T03:19:05+00:00</published>
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It has nothing to do with init -- there's only one TSS per cpu.

Other names considered include:

 - current_tss: Confusing because we never switch the tss.
 - singleton_tss: Too long.

This patch was generated with 's/init_tss/cpu_tss/g'.  Followup
patches will fix INIT_TSS and INIT_TSS_IST by hand.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/da29fb2a793e4f649d93ce2d1ed320ebe8516262.1425611534.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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It has nothing to do with init -- there's only one TSS per cpu.

Other names considered include:

 - current_tss: Confusing because we never switch the tss.
 - singleton_tss: Too long.

This patch was generated with 's/init_tss/cpu_tss/g'.  Followup
patches will fix INIT_TSS and INIT_TSS_IST by hand.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/da29fb2a793e4f649d93ce2d1ed320ebe8516262.1425611534.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4</title>
<updated>2015-02-04T11:10:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-24T22:58:08+00:00</published>
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Context switches and TLB flushes can change individual bits of CR4.
CR4 reads take several cycles, so store a shadow copy of CR4 in a
per-cpu variable.

To avoid wasting a cache line, I added the CR4 shadow to
cpu_tlbstate, which is already touched in switch_mm.  The heaviest
users of the cr4 shadow will be switch_mm and __switch_to_xtra, and
__switch_to_xtra is called shortly after switch_mm during context
switch, so the cacheline is likely to be hot.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vince@deater.net&gt;
Cc: "hillf.zj" &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a54dd3353fffbf84804398e00dfdc5b7c1afd7d.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Context switches and TLB flushes can change individual bits of CR4.
CR4 reads take several cycles, so store a shadow copy of CR4 in a
per-cpu variable.

To avoid wasting a cache line, I added the CR4 shadow to
cpu_tlbstate, which is already touched in switch_mm.  The heaviest
users of the cr4 shadow will be switch_mm and __switch_to_xtra, and
__switch_to_xtra is called shortly after switch_mm during context
switch, so the cacheline is likely to be hot.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vince@deater.net&gt;
Cc: "hillf.zj" &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a54dd3353fffbf84804398e00dfdc5b7c1afd7d.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86: copy_thread: Don't nullify -&gt;ptrace_bps twice</title>
<updated>2014-09-02T21:51:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2014-09-02T17:57:33+00:00</published>
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Both 32bit and 64bit versions of copy_thread() do memset(ptrace_bps)
twice for no reason, kill the 2nd memset().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175733.GA21676@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Both 32bit and 64bit versions of copy_thread() do memset(ptrace_bps)
twice for no reason, kill the 2nd memset().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175733.GA21676@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: Shift "fpu_counter = 0" from copy_thread() to arch_dup_task_struct()</title>
<updated>2014-09-02T21:51:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-02T17:57:30+00:00</published>
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Cosmetic, but I think thread.fpu_counter should be initialized in
arch_dup_task_struct() too, along with other "fpu" variables. And
probably it make sense to turn it into thread.fpu-&gt;counter.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175730.GA21669@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Cosmetic, but I think thread.fpu_counter should be initialized in
arch_dup_task_struct() too, along with other "fpu" variables. And
probably it make sense to turn it into thread.fpu-&gt;counter.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175730.GA21669@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: Keep thread_info on thread stack in x86_32</title>
<updated>2014-03-07T00:56:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-06T14:41:31+00:00</published>
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x86_64 uses a per_cpu variable kernel_stack to always point to
the thread stack of current. This is where the thread_info is stored
and is accessed from this location even when the irq or exception stack
is in use. This removes the complexity of having to maintain the
thread info on the stack when interrupts are running and having to
copy the preempt_count and other fields to the interrupt stack.

x86_32 uses the old method of copying the thread_info from the thread
stack to the exception stack just before executing the exception.

Having the two different requires #ifdefs and also the x86_32 way
is a bit of a pain to maintain. By converting x86_32 to the same
method of x86_64, we can remove #ifdefs, clean up the x86_32 code
a little, and remove the overhead of the copy.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110806012354.263834829@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140206144321.852942014@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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x86_64 uses a per_cpu variable kernel_stack to always point to
the thread stack of current. This is where the thread_info is stored
and is accessed from this location even when the irq or exception stack
is in use. This removes the complexity of having to maintain the
thread info on the stack when interrupts are running and having to
copy the preempt_count and other fields to the interrupt stack.

x86_32 uses the old method of copying the thread_info from the thread
stack to the exception stack just before executing the exception.

Having the two different requires #ifdefs and also the x86_32 way
is a bit of a pain to maintain. By converting x86_32 to the same
method of x86_64, we can remove #ifdefs, clean up the x86_32 code
a little, and remove the overhead of the copy.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110806012354.263834829@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140206144321.852942014@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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