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<title>x86_64, switch_to(): Load TLS descriptors before switching DS and ES</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T10:40:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-08T21:55:20+00:00</published>
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Otherwise, if buggy user code points DS or ES into the TLS
array, they would be corrupted after a context switch.

This also significantly improves the comments and documents some
gotchas in the code.

Before this patch, the both tests below failed.  With this
patch, the es test passes, although the gsbase test still fails.

 ----- begin es test -----

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2014 Andy Lutomirski
 * GPL v2
 */

static unsigned short GDT3(int idx)
{
	return (idx &lt;&lt; 3) | 3;
}

static int create_tls(int idx, unsigned int base)
{
	struct user_desc desc = {
		.entry_number    = idx,
		.base_addr       = base,
		.limit           = 0xfffff,
		.seg_32bit       = 1,
		.contents        = 0, /* Data, grow-up */
		.read_exec_only  = 0,
		.limit_in_pages  = 1,
		.seg_not_present = 0,
		.useable         = 0,
	};

	if (syscall(SYS_set_thread_area, &amp;desc) != 0)
		err(1, "set_thread_area");

	return desc.entry_number;
}

int main()
{
	int idx = create_tls(-1, 0);
	printf("Allocated GDT index %d\n", idx);

	unsigned short orig_es;
	asm volatile ("mov %%es,%0" : "=rm" (orig_es));

	int errors = 0;
	int total = 1000;
	for (int i = 0; i &lt; total; i++) {
		asm volatile ("mov %0,%%es" : : "rm" (GDT3(idx)));
		usleep(100);

		unsigned short es;
		asm volatile ("mov %%es,%0" : "=rm" (es));
		asm volatile ("mov %0,%%es" : : "rm" (orig_es));
		if (es != GDT3(idx)) {
			if (errors == 0)
				printf("[FAIL]\tES changed from 0x%hx to 0x%hx\n",
				       GDT3(idx), es);
			errors++;
		}
	}

	if (errors) {
		printf("[FAIL]\tES was corrupted %d/%d times\n", errors, total);
		return 1;
	} else {
		printf("[OK]\tES was preserved\n");
		return 0;
	}
}

 ----- end es test -----

 ----- begin gsbase test -----

/*
 * gsbase.c, a gsbase test
 * Copyright (c) 2014 Andy Lutomirski
 * GPL v2
 */

static unsigned char *testptr, *testptr2;

static unsigned char read_gs_testvals(void)
{
	unsigned char ret;
	asm volatile ("movb %%gs:%1, %0" : "=r" (ret) : "m" (*testptr));
	return ret;
}

int main()
{
	int errors = 0;

	testptr = mmap((void *)0x200000000UL, 1, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
		       MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
	if (testptr == MAP_FAILED)
		err(1, "mmap");

	testptr2 = mmap((void *)0x300000000UL, 1, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
		       MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
	if (testptr2 == MAP_FAILED)
		err(1, "mmap");

	*testptr = 0;
	*testptr2 = 1;

	if (syscall(SYS_arch_prctl, ARCH_SET_GS,
		    (unsigned long)testptr2 - (unsigned long)testptr) != 0)
		err(1, "ARCH_SET_GS");

	usleep(100);

	if (read_gs_testvals() == 1) {
		printf("[OK]\tARCH_SET_GS worked\n");
	} else {
		printf("[FAIL]\tARCH_SET_GS failed\n");
		errors++;
	}

	asm volatile ("mov %0,%%gs" : : "r" (0));

	if (read_gs_testvals() == 0) {
		printf("[OK]\tWriting 0 to gs worked\n");
	} else {
		printf("[FAIL]\tWriting 0 to gs failed\n");
		errors++;
	}

	usleep(100);

	if (read_gs_testvals() == 0) {
		printf("[OK]\tgsbase is still zero\n");
	} else {
		printf("[FAIL]\tgsbase was corrupted\n");
		errors++;
	}

	return errors == 0 ? 0 : 1;
}

 ----- end gsbase test -----

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/509d27c9fec78217691c3dad91cec87e1006b34a.1418075657.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Otherwise, if buggy user code points DS or ES into the TLS
array, they would be corrupted after a context switch.

This also significantly improves the comments and documents some
gotchas in the code.

Before this patch, the both tests below failed.  With this
patch, the es test passes, although the gsbase test still fails.

 ----- begin es test -----

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2014 Andy Lutomirski
 * GPL v2
 */

static unsigned short GDT3(int idx)
{
	return (idx &lt;&lt; 3) | 3;
}

static int create_tls(int idx, unsigned int base)
{
	struct user_desc desc = {
		.entry_number    = idx,
		.base_addr       = base,
		.limit           = 0xfffff,
		.seg_32bit       = 1,
		.contents        = 0, /* Data, grow-up */
		.read_exec_only  = 0,
		.limit_in_pages  = 1,
		.seg_not_present = 0,
		.useable         = 0,
	};

	if (syscall(SYS_set_thread_area, &amp;desc) != 0)
		err(1, "set_thread_area");

	return desc.entry_number;
}

int main()
{
	int idx = create_tls(-1, 0);
	printf("Allocated GDT index %d\n", idx);

	unsigned short orig_es;
	asm volatile ("mov %%es,%0" : "=rm" (orig_es));

	int errors = 0;
	int total = 1000;
	for (int i = 0; i &lt; total; i++) {
		asm volatile ("mov %0,%%es" : : "rm" (GDT3(idx)));
		usleep(100);

		unsigned short es;
		asm volatile ("mov %%es,%0" : "=rm" (es));
		asm volatile ("mov %0,%%es" : : "rm" (orig_es));
		if (es != GDT3(idx)) {
			if (errors == 0)
				printf("[FAIL]\tES changed from 0x%hx to 0x%hx\n",
				       GDT3(idx), es);
			errors++;
		}
	}

	if (errors) {
		printf("[FAIL]\tES was corrupted %d/%d times\n", errors, total);
		return 1;
	} else {
		printf("[OK]\tES was preserved\n");
		return 0;
	}
}

 ----- end es test -----

 ----- begin gsbase test -----

/*
 * gsbase.c, a gsbase test
 * Copyright (c) 2014 Andy Lutomirski
 * GPL v2
 */

static unsigned char *testptr, *testptr2;

static unsigned char read_gs_testvals(void)
{
	unsigned char ret;
	asm volatile ("movb %%gs:%1, %0" : "=r" (ret) : "m" (*testptr));
	return ret;
}

int main()
{
	int errors = 0;

	testptr = mmap((void *)0x200000000UL, 1, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
		       MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
	if (testptr == MAP_FAILED)
		err(1, "mmap");

	testptr2 = mmap((void *)0x300000000UL, 1, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
		       MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
	if (testptr2 == MAP_FAILED)
		err(1, "mmap");

	*testptr = 0;
	*testptr2 = 1;

	if (syscall(SYS_arch_prctl, ARCH_SET_GS,
		    (unsigned long)testptr2 - (unsigned long)testptr) != 0)
		err(1, "ARCH_SET_GS");

	usleep(100);

	if (read_gs_testvals() == 1) {
		printf("[OK]\tARCH_SET_GS worked\n");
	} else {
		printf("[FAIL]\tARCH_SET_GS failed\n");
		errors++;
	}

	asm volatile ("mov %0,%%gs" : : "r" (0));

	if (read_gs_testvals() == 0) {
		printf("[OK]\tWriting 0 to gs worked\n");
	} else {
		printf("[FAIL]\tWriting 0 to gs failed\n");
		errors++;
	}

	usleep(100);

	if (read_gs_testvals() == 0) {
		printf("[OK]\tgsbase is still zero\n");
	} else {
		printf("[FAIL]\tgsbase was corrupted\n");
		errors++;
	}

	return errors == 0 ? 0 : 1;
}

 ----- end gsbase test -----

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/509d27c9fec78217691c3dad91cec87e1006b34a.1418075657.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<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>
</author>
<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;
</pre>
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</entry>
<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;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to resolve conflict and to prepare for new patches</title>
<updated>2014-06-06T05:55:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-06T05:55:06+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/traps.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/traps.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>asmlinkage, x86: Add explicit __visible to arch/x86/*</title>
<updated>2014-05-05T23:07:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-01T22:44:37+00:00</published>
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As requested by Linus add explicit __visible to the asmlinkage users.
This marks all functions visible to assembler.

Tree sweep for arch/x86/*

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398984278-29319-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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As requested by Linus add explicit __visible to the asmlinkage users.
This marks all functions visible to assembler.

Tree sweep for arch/x86/*

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398984278-29319-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>uprobes/x86: Fix is_64bit_mm() with CONFIG_X86_X32</title>
<updated>2014-04-30T17:10:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-19T16:10:09+00:00</published>
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is_64bit_mm() assumes that mm-&gt;context.ia32_compat means the 32-bit
instruction set, this is not true if the task is TIF_X32.

Change set_personality_ia32() to initialize mm-&gt;context.ia32_compat
by TIF_X32 or TIF_IA32 instead of 1. This allows to fix is_64bit_mm()
without affecting other users, they all treat ia32_compat as "bool".

TIF_ in -&gt;ia32_compat looks a bit strange, but this is grep-friendly
and avoids the new define's.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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is_64bit_mm() assumes that mm-&gt;context.ia32_compat means the 32-bit
instruction set, this is not true if the task is TIF_X32.

Change set_personality_ia32() to initialize mm-&gt;context.ia32_compat
by TIF_X32 or TIF_IA32 instead of 1. This allows to fix is_64bit_mm()
without affecting other users, they all treat ia32_compat as "bool".

TIF_ in -&gt;ia32_compat looks a bit strange, but this is grep-friendly
and avoids the new define's.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-11-14T07:55:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-14T07:55:56+00:00</published>
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Pull two x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error
  x86/dumpstack: Fix printk_address for direct addresses
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Pull two x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error
  x86/dumpstack: Fix printk_address for direct addresses
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: move fpu_counter into ARCH specific thread_struct</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:09:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T23:08:46+00:00</published>
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Only a couple of arches (sh/x86) use fpu_counter in task_struct so it can
be moved out into ARCH specific thread_struct, reducing the size of
task_struct for other arches.

Compile tested i386_defconfig + gcc 4.7.3

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;paul.mundt@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Only a couple of arches (sh/x86) use fpu_counter in task_struct so it can
be moved out into ARCH specific thread_struct, reducing the size of
task_struct for other arches.

Compile tested i386_defconfig + gcc 4.7.3

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;paul.mundt@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/dumpstack: Fix printk_address for direct addresses</title>
<updated>2013-11-12T20:06:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-25T13:06:58+00:00</published>
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Consider a kernel crash in a module, simulated the following way:

 static int my_init(void)
 {
         char *map = (void *)0x5;
         *map = 3;
         return 0;
 }
 module_init(my_init);

When we turn off FRAME_POINTERs, the very first instruction in
that function causes a BUG. The problem is that we print IP in
the BUG report using %pB (from printk_address). And %pB
decrements the pointer by one to fix printing addresses of
functions with tail calls.

This was added in commit 71f9e59800e5ad4 ("x86, dumpstack: Use
%pB format specifier for stack trace") to fix the call stack
printouts.

So instead of correct output:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000005
  IP: [&lt;ffffffffa01ac000&gt;] my_init+0x0/0x10 [pb173]

We get:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000005
  IP: [&lt;ffffffffa0152000&gt;] 0xffffffffa0151fff

To fix that, we use %pS only for stack addresses printouts (via
newly added printk_stack_address) and %pB for regs-&gt;ip (via
printk_address). I.e. we revert to the old behaviour for all
except call stacks. And since from all those reliable is 1, we
remove that parameter from printk_address.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: joe@perches.com
Cc: jirislaby@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382706418-8435-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Consider a kernel crash in a module, simulated the following way:

 static int my_init(void)
 {
         char *map = (void *)0x5;
         *map = 3;
         return 0;
 }
 module_init(my_init);

When we turn off FRAME_POINTERs, the very first instruction in
that function causes a BUG. The problem is that we print IP in
the BUG report using %pB (from printk_address). And %pB
decrements the pointer by one to fix printing addresses of
functions with tail calls.

This was added in commit 71f9e59800e5ad4 ("x86, dumpstack: Use
%pB format specifier for stack trace") to fix the call stack
printouts.

So instead of correct output:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000005
  IP: [&lt;ffffffffa01ac000&gt;] my_init+0x0/0x10 [pb173]

We get:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000005
  IP: [&lt;ffffffffa0152000&gt;] 0xffffffffa0151fff

To fix that, we use %pS only for stack addresses printouts (via
newly added printk_stack_address) and %pB for regs-&gt;ip (via
printk_address). I.e. we revert to the old behaviour for all
except call stacks. And since from all those reliable is 1, we
remove that parameter from printk_address.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: joe@perches.com
Cc: jirislaby@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382706418-8435-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>sched, x86: Provide a per-cpu preempt_count implementation</title>
<updated>2013-09-25T12:07:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-14T12:51:00+00:00</published>
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Convert x86 to use a per-cpu preemption count. The reason for doing so
is that accessing per-cpu variables is a lot cheaper than accessing
thread_info variables.

We still need to save/restore the actual preemption count due to
PREEMPT_ACTIVE so we place the per-cpu __preempt_count variable in the
same cache-line as the other hot __switch_to() variables such as
current_task.

NOTE: this save/restore is required even for !PREEMPT kernels as
cond_resched() also relies on preempt_count's PREEMPT_ACTIVE to ignore
task_struct::state.

Also rename thread_info::preempt_count to ensure nobody is
'accidentally' still poking at it.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gzn5rfsf8trgjoqx8hyayy3q@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Convert x86 to use a per-cpu preemption count. The reason for doing so
is that accessing per-cpu variables is a lot cheaper than accessing
thread_info variables.

We still need to save/restore the actual preemption count due to
PREEMPT_ACTIVE so we place the per-cpu __preempt_count variable in the
same cache-line as the other hot __switch_to() variables such as
current_task.

NOTE: this save/restore is required even for !PREEMPT kernels as
cond_resched() also relies on preempt_count's PREEMPT_ACTIVE to ignore
task_struct::state.

Also rename thread_info::preempt_count to ensure nobody is
'accidentally' still poking at it.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gzn5rfsf8trgjoqx8hyayy3q@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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