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author | Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> | 2008-03-10 22:28:05 (GMT) |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-04-19 17:19:55 (GMT) |
commit | aa283f49276e7d840a40fb01eee6de97eaa7e012 (patch) | |
tree | b17b134b174666e482b1a8ad486436a3d5cdb83e /arch/x86/kernel/process.c | |
parent | 61c4628b538608c1a85211ed8438136adfeb9a95 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-aa283f49276e7d840a40fb01eee6de97eaa7e012.tar.xz |
x86, fpu: lazy allocation of FPU area - v5
Only allocate the FPU area when the application actually uses FPU, i.e., in the
first lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps.
for example: on my system after boot, there are around 300 processes, with
only 17 using FPU.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index ead24ef..0e613e7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -5,24 +5,34 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/sched.h> -static struct kmem_cache *task_xstate_cachep; +struct kmem_cache *task_xstate_cachep; int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src) { *dst = *src; - dst->thread.xstate = kmem_cache_alloc(task_xstate_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!dst->thread.xstate) - return -ENOMEM; - WARN_ON((unsigned long)dst->thread.xstate & 15); - memcpy(dst->thread.xstate, src->thread.xstate, xstate_size); + if (src->thread.xstate) { + dst->thread.xstate = kmem_cache_alloc(task_xstate_cachep, + GFP_KERNEL); + if (!dst->thread.xstate) + return -ENOMEM; + WARN_ON((unsigned long)dst->thread.xstate & 15); + memcpy(dst->thread.xstate, src->thread.xstate, xstate_size); + } return 0; } -void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti) +void free_thread_xstate(struct task_struct *tsk) { - kmem_cache_free(task_xstate_cachep, ti->task->thread.xstate); - ti->task->thread.xstate = NULL; + if (tsk->thread.xstate) { + kmem_cache_free(task_xstate_cachep, tsk->thread.xstate); + tsk->thread.xstate = NULL; + } +} + +void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti) +{ + free_thread_xstate(ti->task); free_pages((unsigned long)(ti), get_order(THREAD_SIZE)); } |