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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/fpu')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h | 72 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h index 0637826..c49c517 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h @@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ union fpregs_state { struct fxregs_state fxsave; struct swregs_state soft; struct xregs_state xsave; + u8 __padding[PAGE_SIZE]; }; /* @@ -198,40 +199,6 @@ union fpregs_state { */ struct fpu { /* - * @state: - * - * In-memory copy of all FPU registers that we save/restore - * over context switches. If the task is using the FPU then - * the registers in the FPU are more recent than this state - * copy. If the task context-switches away then they get - * saved here and represent the FPU state. - * - * After context switches there may be a (short) time period - * during which the in-FPU hardware registers are unchanged - * and still perfectly match this state, if the tasks - * scheduled afterwards are not using the FPU. - * - * This is the 'lazy restore' window of optimization, which - * we track though 'fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx' and 'fpu->last_cpu'. - * - * We detect whether a subsequent task uses the FPU via setting - * CR0::TS to 1, which causes any FPU use to raise a #NM fault. - * - * During this window, if the task gets scheduled again, we - * might be able to skip having to do a restore from this - * memory buffer to the hardware registers - at the cost of - * incurring the overhead of #NM fault traps. - * - * Note that on modern CPUs that support the XSAVEOPT (or other - * optimized XSAVE instructions), we don't use #NM traps anymore, - * as the hardware can track whether FPU registers need saving - * or not. On such CPUs we activate the non-lazy ('eagerfpu') - * logic, which unconditionally saves/restores all FPU state - * across context switches. (if FPU state exists.) - */ - union fpregs_state state; - - /* * @last_cpu: * * Records the last CPU on which this context was loaded into @@ -288,6 +255,43 @@ struct fpu { * deal with bursty apps that only use the FPU for a short time: */ unsigned char counter; + /* + * @state: + * + * In-memory copy of all FPU registers that we save/restore + * over context switches. If the task is using the FPU then + * the registers in the FPU are more recent than this state + * copy. If the task context-switches away then they get + * saved here and represent the FPU state. + * + * After context switches there may be a (short) time period + * during which the in-FPU hardware registers are unchanged + * and still perfectly match this state, if the tasks + * scheduled afterwards are not using the FPU. + * + * This is the 'lazy restore' window of optimization, which + * we track though 'fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx' and 'fpu->last_cpu'. + * + * We detect whether a subsequent task uses the FPU via setting + * CR0::TS to 1, which causes any FPU use to raise a #NM fault. + * + * During this window, if the task gets scheduled again, we + * might be able to skip having to do a restore from this + * memory buffer to the hardware registers - at the cost of + * incurring the overhead of #NM fault traps. + * + * Note that on modern CPUs that support the XSAVEOPT (or other + * optimized XSAVE instructions), we don't use #NM traps anymore, + * as the hardware can track whether FPU registers need saving + * or not. On such CPUs we activate the non-lazy ('eagerfpu') + * logic, which unconditionally saves/restores all FPU state + * across context switches. (if FPU state exists.) + */ + union fpregs_state state; + /* + * WARNING: 'state' is dynamically-sized. Do not put + * anything after it here. + */ }; #endif /* _ASM_X86_FPU_H */ |