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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>2018-11-29 16:02:10 +0100
committerBorislav Petkov <[email protected]>2018-12-04 12:37:28 +0100
commit12209993e98c5fa1855c467f22a24e3d5b8be205 (patch)
tree73e4a7b5e6e48b1562b8db90523ade974db242cd /arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h
parent2f2fcc40a961ed04f0e130803fbaa868c2899310 (diff)
x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}()
There is one user of __kernel_fpu_begin() and before invoking it, it invokes preempt_disable(). So it could invoke kernel_fpu_begin() right away. The 32bit version of arch_efi_call_virt_setup() and arch_efi_call_virt_teardown() does this already. The comment above *kernel_fpu*() claims that before invoking __kernel_fpu_begin() preemption should be disabled and that KVM is a good example of doing it. Well, KVM doesn't do that since commit f775b13eedee2 ("x86,kvm: move qemu/guest FPU switching out to vcpu_run") so it is not an example anymore. With EFI gone as the last user of __kernel_fpu_{begin|end}(), both can be made static and not exported anymore. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Nicolai Stange <[email protected]> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> Cc: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: kvm ML <[email protected]> Cc: linux-efi <[email protected]> Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h15
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h
index a9caac9d4a72..b56d504af654 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h
@@ -12,17 +12,12 @@
#define _ASM_X86_FPU_API_H
/*
- * Careful: __kernel_fpu_begin/end() must be called with preempt disabled
- * and they don't touch the preempt state on their own.
- * If you enable preemption after __kernel_fpu_begin(), preempt notifier
- * should call the __kernel_fpu_end() to prevent the kernel/user FPU
- * state from getting corrupted. KVM for example uses this model.
- *
- * All other cases use kernel_fpu_begin/end() which disable preemption
- * during kernel FPU usage.
+ * Use kernel_fpu_begin/end() if you intend to use FPU in kernel context. It
+ * disables preemption so be careful if you intend to use it for long periods
+ * of time.
+ * If you intend to use the FPU in softirq you need to check first with
+ * irq_fpu_usable() if it is possible.
*/
-extern void __kernel_fpu_begin(void);
-extern void __kernel_fpu_end(void);
extern void kernel_fpu_begin(void);
extern void kernel_fpu_end(void);
extern bool irq_fpu_usable(void);