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authorSiddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2007-11-11 19:27:59 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-11-12 19:09:33 (GMT)
commit92d140e21f1ce8cf99320afbbcad73879128e6dc (patch)
tree54a67ee106da78b2a5f265e8e12fc84b92e763d6 /arch
parentefe44183f6bab5b8acb6a6182d95274978c8abb1 (diff)
downloadlinux-92d140e21f1ce8cf99320afbbcad73879128e6dc.tar.xz
x86: fix taking DNA during 64bit sigreturn
restore sigcontext is taking a DNA exception while restoring FP context from the user stack, during the sigreturn. Appended patch fixes it by doing clts() if the app doesn't touch FP during the signal handler execution. This will stop generating a DNA, during the fxrstor in the sigreturn. This improves 64-bit lat_sig numbers by ~30% on my core2 platform. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/i387_64.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/i387_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/i387_64.c
index 56c1f11..bfaff28 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/i387_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/i387_64.c
@@ -92,13 +92,14 @@ int save_i387(struct _fpstate __user *buf)
if (task_thread_info(tsk)->status & TS_USEDFPU) {
err = save_i387_checking((struct i387_fxsave_struct __user *)buf);
if (err) return err;
+ task_thread_info(tsk)->status &= ~TS_USEDFPU;
stts();
- } else {
- if (__copy_to_user(buf, &tsk->thread.i387.fxsave,
+ } else {
+ if (__copy_to_user(buf, &tsk->thread.i387.fxsave,
sizeof(struct i387_fxsave_struct)))
return -1;
- }
- return 1;
+ }
+ return 1;
}
/*