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<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Avoid math_state_restore() without used_math() in __restore_xstate_sig()</title>
<updated>2015-04-09T11:14:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-13T08:53:09+00:00</published>
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commit a7c80ebcac3068b1c3cb27d538d29558c30010c8 upstream.

math_state_restore() assumes it is called with irqs disabled,
but this is not true if the caller is __restore_xstate_sig().

This means that if ia32_fxstate == T and __copy_from_user()
fails, __restore_xstate_sig() returns with irqs disabled too.

This triggers:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:41
   dump_stack
   ___might_sleep
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   __might_sleep
   down_read
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   print_vma_addr
   signal_fault
   sys32_rt_sigreturn

Change __restore_xstate_sig() to call set_used_math()
unconditionally. This avoids enabling and disabling interrupts
in math_state_restore(). If copy_from_user() fails, we can
simply do fpu_finit() by hand.

[ Note: this is only the first step. math_state_restore() should
        not check used_math(), it should set this flag. While
	init_fpu() should simply die. ]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Riikonen &lt;priikone@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150307153844.GB25954@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit a7c80ebcac3068b1c3cb27d538d29558c30010c8 upstream.

math_state_restore() assumes it is called with irqs disabled,
but this is not true if the caller is __restore_xstate_sig().

This means that if ia32_fxstate == T and __copy_from_user()
fails, __restore_xstate_sig() returns with irqs disabled too.

This triggers:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:41
   dump_stack
   ___might_sleep
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   __might_sleep
   down_read
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   print_vma_addr
   signal_fault
   sys32_rt_sigreturn

Change __restore_xstate_sig() to call set_used_math()
unconditionally. This avoids enabling and disabling interrupts
in math_state_restore(). If copy_from_user() fails, we can
simply do fpu_finit() by hand.

[ Note: this is only the first step. math_state_restore() should
        not check used_math(), it should set this flag. While
	init_fpu() should simply die. ]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Riikonen &lt;priikone@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150307153844.GB25954@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: shift drop_init_fpu() from save_xstate_sig() to handle_signal()</title>
<updated>2014-11-13T18:02:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-02T17:57:13+00:00</published>
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commit 66463db4fc5605d51c7bb81d009d5bf30a783a2c upstream.

save_xstate_sig()-&gt;drop_init_fpu() doesn't look right. setup_rt_frame()
can fail after that, in this case the next setup_rt_frame() triggered
by SIGSEGV won't save fpu simply because the old state was lost. This
obviously mean that fpu won't be restored after sys_rt_sigreturn() from
SIGSEGV handler.

Shift drop_init_fpu() into !failed branch in handle_signal().

Test-case (needs -O2):

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;signal.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;pthread.h&gt;
	#include &lt;assert.h&gt;

	volatile double D;

	void test(double d)
	{
		int pid = getpid();

		for (D = d; D == d; ) {
			/* sys_tkill(pid, SIGHUP); asm to avoid save/reload
			 * fp regs around "C" call */
			asm ("" : : "a"(200), "D"(pid), "S"(1));
			asm ("syscall" : : : "ax");
		}

		printf("ERR!!\n");
	}

	void sigh(int sig)
	{
	}

	char altstack[4096 * 10] __attribute__((aligned(4096)));

	void *tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		for (;;) {
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ);
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE);
		}
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		stack_t st = {
			.ss_sp = altstack,
			.ss_size = sizeof(altstack),
			.ss_flags = SS_ONSTACK,
		};

		struct sigaction sa = {
			.sa_handler = sigh,
		};

		pthread_t pt;

		sigaction(SIGSEGV, &amp;sa, NULL);
		sigaltstack(&amp;st, NULL);
		sa.sa_flags = SA_ONSTACK;
		sigaction(SIGHUP, &amp;sa, NULL);

		pthread_create(&amp;pt, NULL, tfunc, NULL);

		test(123.456);
		return 0;
	}

Reported-by: Bean Anderson &lt;bean@azulsystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175713.GA21646@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit 66463db4fc5605d51c7bb81d009d5bf30a783a2c upstream.

save_xstate_sig()-&gt;drop_init_fpu() doesn't look right. setup_rt_frame()
can fail after that, in this case the next setup_rt_frame() triggered
by SIGSEGV won't save fpu simply because the old state was lost. This
obviously mean that fpu won't be restored after sys_rt_sigreturn() from
SIGSEGV handler.

Shift drop_init_fpu() into !failed branch in handle_signal().

Test-case (needs -O2):

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;signal.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;pthread.h&gt;
	#include &lt;assert.h&gt;

	volatile double D;

	void test(double d)
	{
		int pid = getpid();

		for (D = d; D == d; ) {
			/* sys_tkill(pid, SIGHUP); asm to avoid save/reload
			 * fp regs around "C" call */
			asm ("" : : "a"(200), "D"(pid), "S"(1));
			asm ("syscall" : : : "ax");
		}

		printf("ERR!!\n");
	}

	void sigh(int sig)
	{
	}

	char altstack[4096 * 10] __attribute__((aligned(4096)));

	void *tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		for (;;) {
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ);
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE);
		}
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		stack_t st = {
			.ss_sp = altstack,
			.ss_size = sizeof(altstack),
			.ss_flags = SS_ONSTACK,
		};

		struct sigaction sa = {
			.sa_handler = sigh,
		};

		pthread_t pt;

		sigaction(SIGSEGV, &amp;sa, NULL);
		sigaltstack(&amp;st, NULL);
		sa.sa_flags = SA_ONSTACK;
		sigaction(SIGHUP, &amp;sa, NULL);

		pthread_create(&amp;pt, NULL, tfunc, NULL);

		test(123.456);
		return 0;
	}

Reported-by: Bean Anderson &lt;bean@azulsystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175713.GA21646@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: __restore_xstate_sig()-&gt;math_state_restore() needs preempt_disable()</title>
<updated>2014-11-13T18:02:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-02T17:57:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=03f43efc6a00eb29015222f8e9caeafdd9986a63'/>
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<content type='text'>
commit df24fb859a4e200d9324e2974229fbb7adf00aef upstream.

Add preempt_disable() + preempt_enable() around math_state_restore() in
__restore_xstate_sig(). Otherwise __switch_to() after __thread_fpu_begin()
can overwrite fpu-&gt;state we are going to restore.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175717.GA21649@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit df24fb859a4e200d9324e2974229fbb7adf00aef upstream.

Add preempt_disable() + preempt_enable() around math_state_restore() in
__restore_xstate_sig(). Otherwise __switch_to() after __thread_fpu_begin()
can overwrite fpu-&gt;state we are going to restore.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175717.GA21649@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T23:36:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-18T22:23:59+00:00</published>
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/x86 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files.  x86 only had the one __CPUINIT used in assembly files,
and it wasn't paired off with a .previous or a __FINIT, so we can
delete it directly w/o any corresponding additional change there.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/x86 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files.  x86 only had the one __CPUINIT used in assembly files,
and it wasn't paired off with a .previous or a __FINIT, so we can
delete it directly w/o any corresponding additional change there.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Get rid of -&gt;hard_math and all the FPU asm fu</title>
<updated>2013-06-06T21:32:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-29T14:04:20+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Reimplement FPU detection code in C and drop old, not-so-recommended
detection method in asm. Move all the relevant stuff into i387.c where
it conceptually belongs. Finally drop cpuinfo_x86.hard_math.

[ hpa: huge thanks to Borislav for taking my original concept patch
  and productizing it ]

[ Boris, note to self: do not use static_cpu_has before alternatives! ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367244262-29511-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365436666-9837-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
Reimplement FPU detection code in C and drop old, not-so-recommended
detection method in asm. Move all the relevant stuff into i387.c where
it conceptually belongs. Finally drop cpuinfo_x86.hard_math.

[ hpa: huge thanks to Borislav for taking my original concept patch
  and productizing it ]

[ Boris, note to self: do not use static_cpu_has before alternatives! ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367244262-29511-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365436666-9837-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, smap: Do not abuse the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions for user space</title>
<updated>2012-09-25T22:42:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-25T22:42:18+00:00</published>
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With SMAP, the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions are no longer usable
for user-space pointers by applying a simple __force cast.  Instead,
create new [f][x]rstor_user() functions which do the proper SMAP
magic.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343171129-2747-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
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With SMAP, the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions are no longer usable
for user-space pointers by applying a simple __force cast.  Instead,
create new [f][x]rstor_user() functions which do the proper SMAP
magic.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343171129-2747-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: make eagerfpu= boot param tri-state</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T22:52:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-10T17:32:32+00:00</published>
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<id>e00229819f306b1f86134095347e9187dc346bd1</id>
<content type='text'>
Add the "eagerfpu=auto" (that selects the default scheme in
enabling eagerfpu) which can override compiled-in boot parameters
like "eagerfpu=on/off" (that force enable/disable eagerfpu).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-5-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
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Add the "eagerfpu=auto" (that selects the default scheme in
enabling eagerfpu) which can override compiled-in boot parameters
like "eagerfpu=on/off" (that force enable/disable eagerfpu).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-5-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: enable eagerfpu by default for xsaveopt</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T22:52:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-06T22:05:18+00:00</published>
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xsaveopt/xrstor support optimized state save/restore by tracking the
INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch.

Enable eagerfpu by default for processors supporting xsaveopt.
Can be disabled by passing "eagerfpu=off" boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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xsaveopt/xrstor support optimized state save/restore by tracking the
INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch.

Enable eagerfpu by default for processors supporting xsaveopt.
Can be disabled by passing "eagerfpu=off" boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<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;
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<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;
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