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| author | Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> | 2015-03-11 18:34:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2015-03-23 10:13:58 +0100 |
| commit | fb14b4eadf73500d3b2104f031472a268562c047 (patch) | |
| tree | e0c2e7fc48204f27e2f879a546ee0832c4a2027d | |
| parent | eda2360ad18b7cde87728fad85c6735a52c2576e (diff) | |
x86/fpu: Document user_fpu_begin()
Currently, user_fpu_begin() has a single caller and it is not clear why
do we actually need it and why we should not worry about preemption
right after preempt_enable().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Riikonen <[email protected]>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h index 810f20fd4e4e..c58c9302152b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h @@ -508,10 +508,12 @@ static inline int restore_xstate_sig(void __user *buf, int ia32_frame) } /* - * Need to be preemption-safe. + * Needs to be preemption-safe. * * NOTE! user_fpu_begin() must be used only immediately before restoring - * it. This function does not do any save/restore on their own. + * the save state. It does not do any saving/restoring on its own. In + * lazy FPU mode, it is just an optimization to avoid a #NM exception, + * the task can lose the FPU right after preempt_enable(). */ static inline void user_fpu_begin(void) { |