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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/alpha/kernel, branch v6.4-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T22:03:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T22:03:43+00:00</published>
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Pull SMP cross-CPU function-call updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Remove diagnostics and adjust config for CSD lock diagnostics

 - Add a generic IPI-sending tracepoint, as currently there's no easy
   way to instrument IPI origins: it's arch dependent and for some major
   architectures it's not even consistently available.

* tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  trace,smp: Trace all smp_function_call*() invocations
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu()
  sched, smp: Trace smp callback causing an IPI
  smp: reword smp call IPI comment
  treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()
  irq_work: Trace self-IPIs sent via arch_irq_work_raise()
  smp: Trace IPIs sent via arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
  sched, smp: Trace IPIs sent via send_call_function_single_ipi()
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpumask()
  kernel/smp: Make csdlock_debug= resettable
  locking/csd_lock: Remove per-CPU data indirection from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Remove added data from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Add Kconfig option for csd_debug default
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Pull SMP cross-CPU function-call updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Remove diagnostics and adjust config for CSD lock diagnostics

 - Add a generic IPI-sending tracepoint, as currently there's no easy
   way to instrument IPI origins: it's arch dependent and for some major
   architectures it's not even consistently available.

* tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  trace,smp: Trace all smp_function_call*() invocations
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu()
  sched, smp: Trace smp callback causing an IPI
  smp: reword smp call IPI comment
  treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()
  irq_work: Trace self-IPIs sent via arch_irq_work_raise()
  smp: Trace IPIs sent via arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
  sched, smp: Trace IPIs sent via send_call_function_single_ipi()
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpumask()
  kernel/smp: Make csdlock_debug= resettable
  locking/csd_lock: Remove per-CPU data indirection from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Remove added data from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Add Kconfig option for csd_debug default
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'objtool-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T21:02:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T21:02:54+00:00</published>
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Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn, make all architectures &amp;
   drivers that did this inconsistently follow this new, common
   convention, and fix all the fallout that objtool can now detect
   statically

 - Fix/improve the ORC unwinder becoming unreliable due to
   UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY ambiguity, split it into UNWIND_HINT_END_OF_STACK
   and UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED to resolve it

 - Fix noinstr violations in the KCSAN code and the lkdtm/stackleak code

 - Generate ORC data for __pfx code

 - Add more __noreturn annotations to various kernel startup/shutdown
   and panic functions

 - Misc improvements &amp; fixes

* tag 'objtool-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/hyperv: Mark hv_ghcb_terminate() as noreturn
  scsi: message: fusion: Mark mpt_halt_firmware() __noreturn
  x86/cpu: Mark {hlt,resume}_play_dead() __noreturn
  btrfs: Mark btrfs_assertfail() __noreturn
  objtool: Include weak functions in global_noreturns check
  cpu: Mark nmi_panic_self_stop() __noreturn
  cpu: Mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn
  arm64/cpu: Mark cpu_park_loop() and friends __noreturn
  x86/head: Mark *_start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark [arch_call_]rest_init() __noreturn
  objtool: Generate ORC data for __pfx code
  x86/linkage: Fix padding for typed functions
  objtool: Separate prefix code from stack validation code
  objtool: Remove superfluous dead_end_function() check
  objtool: Add symbol iteration helpers
  objtool: Add WARN_INSN()
  scripts/objdump-func: Support multiple functions
  context_tracking: Fix KCSAN noinstr violation
  objtool: Add stackleak instrumentation to uaccess safe list
  ...
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Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn, make all architectures &amp;
   drivers that did this inconsistently follow this new, common
   convention, and fix all the fallout that objtool can now detect
   statically

 - Fix/improve the ORC unwinder becoming unreliable due to
   UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY ambiguity, split it into UNWIND_HINT_END_OF_STACK
   and UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED to resolve it

 - Fix noinstr violations in the KCSAN code and the lkdtm/stackleak code

 - Generate ORC data for __pfx code

 - Add more __noreturn annotations to various kernel startup/shutdown
   and panic functions

 - Misc improvements &amp; fixes

* tag 'objtool-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/hyperv: Mark hv_ghcb_terminate() as noreturn
  scsi: message: fusion: Mark mpt_halt_firmware() __noreturn
  x86/cpu: Mark {hlt,resume}_play_dead() __noreturn
  btrfs: Mark btrfs_assertfail() __noreturn
  objtool: Include weak functions in global_noreturns check
  cpu: Mark nmi_panic_self_stop() __noreturn
  cpu: Mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn
  arm64/cpu: Mark cpu_park_loop() and friends __noreturn
  x86/head: Mark *_start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark [arch_call_]rest_init() __noreturn
  objtool: Generate ORC data for __pfx code
  x86/linkage: Fix padding for typed functions
  objtool: Separate prefix code from stack validation code
  objtool: Remove superfluous dead_end_function() check
  objtool: Add symbol iteration helpers
  objtool: Add WARN_INSN()
  scripts/objdump-func: Support multiple functions
  context_tracking: Fix KCSAN noinstr violation
  objtool: Add stackleak instrumentation to uaccess safe list
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PCI: Introduce pci_dev_for_each_resource()</title>
<updated>2023-04-04T15:43:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mika Westerberg</name>
<email>mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-30T16:24:30+00:00</published>
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Instead of open-coding it everywhere introduce a tiny helper that can be
used to iterate over each resource of a PCI device, and convert the most
obvious users into it.

While at it drop doubled empty line before pdev_sort_resources().

No functional changes intended.

Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230330162434.35055-4-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński &lt;kw@linux.com&gt;
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Instead of open-coding it everywhere introduce a tiny helper that can be
used to iterate over each resource of a PCI device, and convert the most
obvious users into it.

While at it drop doubled empty line before pdev_sort_resources().

No functional changes intended.

Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230330162434.35055-4-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński &lt;kw@linux.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()</title>
<updated>2023-03-24T10:01:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>vschneid@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-07T14:35:56+00:00</published>
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To be able to trace invocations of smp_send_reschedule(), rename the
arch-specific definitions of it to arch_smp_send_reschedule() and wrap it
into an smp_send_reschedule() that contains a tracepoint.

Changes to include the declaration of the tracepoint were driven by the
following coccinelle script:

  @func_use@
  @@
  smp_send_reschedule(...);

  @include@
  @@
  #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

  @no_include depends on func_use &amp;&amp; !include@
  @@
    #include &lt;...&gt;
  +
  + #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

[csky bits]
[riscv bits]
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230307143558.294354-6-vschneid@redhat.com
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To be able to trace invocations of smp_send_reschedule(), rename the
arch-specific definitions of it to arch_smp_send_reschedule() and wrap it
into an smp_send_reschedule() that contains a tracepoint.

Changes to include the declaration of the tracepoint were driven by the
following coccinelle script:

  @func_use@
  @@
  smp_send_reschedule(...);

  @include@
  @@
  #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

  @no_include depends on func_use &amp;&amp; !include@
  @@
    #include &lt;...&gt;
  +
  + #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

[csky bits]
[riscv bits]
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230307143558.294354-6-vschneid@redhat.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/idle: Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn</title>
<updated>2023-03-08T16:44:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-14T07:05:58+00:00</published>
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Before commit 076cbf5d2163 ("x86/xen: don't let xen_pv_play_dead()
return"), in Xen, when a previously offlined CPU was brought back
online, it unexpectedly resumed execution where it left off in the
middle of the idle loop.

There were some hacks to make that work, but the behavior was surprising
as do_idle() doesn't expect an offlined CPU to return from the dead (in
arch_cpu_idle_dead()).

Now that Xen has been fixed, and the arch-specific implementations of
arch_cpu_idle_dead() also don't return, give it a __noreturn attribute.

This will cause the compiler to complain if an arch-specific
implementation might return.  It also improves code generation for both
caller and callee.

Also fixes the following warning:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_idle+0x25f: unreachable instruction

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/60d527353da8c99d4cf13b6473131d46719ed16d.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
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Before commit 076cbf5d2163 ("x86/xen: don't let xen_pv_play_dead()
return"), in Xen, when a previously offlined CPU was brought back
online, it unexpectedly resumed execution where it left off in the
middle of the idle loop.

There were some hacks to make that work, but the behavior was surprising
as do_idle() doesn't expect an offlined CPU to return from the dead (in
arch_cpu_idle_dead()).

Now that Xen has been fixed, and the arch-specific implementations of
arch_cpu_idle_dead() also don't return, give it a __noreturn attribute.

This will cause the compiler to complain if an arch-specific
implementation might return.  It also improves code generation for both
caller and callee.

Also fixes the following warning:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_idle+0x25f: unreachable instruction

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/60d527353da8c99d4cf13b6473131d46719ed16d.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha/cpu: Make sure arch_cpu_idle_dead() doesn't return</title>
<updated>2023-03-06T23:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-14T07:05:36+00:00</published>
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arch_cpu_idle_dead() doesn't return.  Make that more explicit with a
BUG().

BUG() is preferable to unreachable() because BUG() is a more explicit
failure mode and avoids undefined behavior like falling off the edge of
the function into whatever code happens to be next.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/19ffef09a175fecb783abcd44d6bcfeade2857eb.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
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arch_cpu_idle_dead() doesn't return.  Make that more explicit with a
BUG().

BUG() is preferable to unreachable() because BUG() is a more explicit
failure mode and avoids undefined behavior like falling off the edge of
the function into whatever code happens to be next.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/19ffef09a175fecb783abcd44d6bcfeade2857eb.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha/cpu: Expose arch_cpu_idle_dead()'s prototype declaration</title>
<updated>2023-03-06T23:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-14T07:05:35+00:00</published>
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Include &lt;linux/cpu.h&gt; to make sure arch_cpu_idle_dead() matches its
prototype going forward.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b0405c2ac5686303b6026e1ac27cfd769b21a7d0.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
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Include &lt;linux/cpu.h&gt; to make sure arch_cpu_idle_dead() matches its
prototype going forward.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b0405c2ac5686303b6026e1ac27cfd769b21a7d0.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha</title>
<updated>2023-02-25T20:49:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-25T20:49:29+00:00</published>
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Pull alpha updates from Al Viro:
 "Mostly small janitorial fixes but there's also more important ones: a
  patch to fix loading large modules from Edward Humes, and some fixes
  from Al Viro"

[ The fixes from Al mostly came in separately through Al's trees too and
  are now duplicated..   - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha:
  alpha: in_irq() cleanup
  alpha: lazy FPU switching
  alpha/boot/misc: trim unused declarations
  alpha/boot/tools/objstrip: fix the check for ELF header
  alpha/boot: fix the breakage from -isystem series...
  alpha: fix FEN fault handling
  alpha: Avoid comma separated statements
  alpha: fixed a typo in core_cia.c
  alpha: remove unused __SLOW_DOWN_IO and SLOW_DOWN_IO definitions
  alpha: update config files
  alpha: fix R_ALPHA_LITERAL reloc for large modules
  alpha: Add some spaces to ensure format specification
  alpha: replace NR_SYSCALLS by NR_syscalls
  alpha: Remove redundant local asm header redirections
  alpha: Implement "current_stack_pointer"
  alpha: remove redundant err variable
  alpha: osf_sys: reduce kernel log spamming on invalid osf_mount call typenr
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<pre>
Pull alpha updates from Al Viro:
 "Mostly small janitorial fixes but there's also more important ones: a
  patch to fix loading large modules from Edward Humes, and some fixes
  from Al Viro"

[ The fixes from Al mostly came in separately through Al's trees too and
  are now duplicated..   - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha:
  alpha: in_irq() cleanup
  alpha: lazy FPU switching
  alpha/boot/misc: trim unused declarations
  alpha/boot/tools/objstrip: fix the check for ELF header
  alpha/boot: fix the breakage from -isystem series...
  alpha: fix FEN fault handling
  alpha: Avoid comma separated statements
  alpha: fixed a typo in core_cia.c
  alpha: remove unused __SLOW_DOWN_IO and SLOW_DOWN_IO definitions
  alpha: update config files
  alpha: fix R_ALPHA_LITERAL reloc for large modules
  alpha: Add some spaces to ensure format specification
  alpha: replace NR_SYSCALLS by NR_syscalls
  alpha: Remove redundant local asm header redirections
  alpha: Implement "current_stack_pointer"
  alpha: remove redundant err variable
  alpha: osf_sys: reduce kernel log spamming on invalid osf_mount call typenr
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: in_irq() cleanup</title>
<updated>2023-02-25T04:14:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Changbin Du</name>
<email>changbin.du@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-14T01:01:03+00:00</published>
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Replace the obsolete and ambiguos macro in_irq() with new
macro in_hardirq().

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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Replace the obsolete and ambiguos macro in_irq() with new
macro in_hardirq().

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: lazy FPU switching</title>
<updated>2023-02-25T04:14:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2022-09-02T01:50:12+00:00</published>
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	On each context switch we save the FPU registers on stack
of old process and restore FPU registers from the stack of new one.
That allows us to avoid doing that each time we enter/leave the
kernel mode; however, that can get suboptimal in some cases.

	For one thing, we don't need to bother saving anything
for kernel threads.  For another, if between entering and leaving
the kernel a thread gives CPU up more than once, it will do
useless work, saving the same values every time, only to discard
the saved copy as soon as it returns from switch_to().

	Alternative solution:

* move the array we save into from switch_stack to thread_info
* have a (thread-synchronous) flag set when we save them
* have another flag set when they should be restored on return to userland.
* do *NOT* save/restore them in do_switch_stack()/undo_switch_stack().
* restore on the exit to user mode if the restore flag had
been set.  Clear both flags.
* on context switch, entry to fork/clone/vfork, before entry into do_signal()
and on entry into straced syscall save the registers and set the 'saved' flag
unless it had been already set.
* on context switch set the 'restore' flag as well.
* have copy_thread() set both flags for child, so the registers would be
restored once the child returns to userland.
* use the saved data in setup_sigcontext(); have restore_sigcontext() set both flags
and copy from sigframe to save area.
* teach ptrace to look for FPU registers in thread_info instead of
switch_stack.
* teach isolated accesses to FPU registers (rdfpcr, wrfpcr, etc.)
to check the 'saved' flag (under preempt_disable()) and work with the save area
if it's been set; if 'saved' flag is found upon write access, set 'restore' flag
as well.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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	On each context switch we save the FPU registers on stack
of old process and restore FPU registers from the stack of new one.
That allows us to avoid doing that each time we enter/leave the
kernel mode; however, that can get suboptimal in some cases.

	For one thing, we don't need to bother saving anything
for kernel threads.  For another, if between entering and leaving
the kernel a thread gives CPU up more than once, it will do
useless work, saving the same values every time, only to discard
the saved copy as soon as it returns from switch_to().

	Alternative solution:

* move the array we save into from switch_stack to thread_info
* have a (thread-synchronous) flag set when we save them
* have another flag set when they should be restored on return to userland.
* do *NOT* save/restore them in do_switch_stack()/undo_switch_stack().
* restore on the exit to user mode if the restore flag had
been set.  Clear both flags.
* on context switch, entry to fork/clone/vfork, before entry into do_signal()
and on entry into straced syscall save the registers and set the 'saved' flag
unless it had been already set.
* on context switch set the 'restore' flag as well.
* have copy_thread() set both flags for child, so the registers would be
restored once the child returns to userland.
* use the saved data in setup_sigcontext(); have restore_sigcontext() set both flags
and copy from sigframe to save area.
* teach ptrace to look for FPU registers in thread_info instead of
switch_stack.
* teach isolated accesses to FPU registers (rdfpcr, wrfpcr, etc.)
to check the 'saved' flag (under preempt_disable()) and work with the save area
if it's been set; if 'saved' flag is found upon write access, set 'restore' flag
as well.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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