linux-toradex.git/arch/um/include/shared/registers.h, branch v3.4.78 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules um: Save FPU registers between task switches 2011-09-15T01:09:37+00:00 Ingo van Lil inguin@gmx.de 2011-09-14T23:21:23+00:00 fbfe9c847edf57ac8232aeafb290f272289893a3 Some time ago Jeff prepared 42daba316557 ("uml: stop saving process FP state") for UML to stop saving the process FP state between task switches. The assumption was that since with SKAS0 every guest process runs inside a host process context the host OS will take care of keeping the proper FP state. Unfortunately this is not true for multi-threaded applications, where all guest threads share a single host process context yet all may use the FPU on their own. Although I haven't verified it I suspect things to be even worse in SKAS3 mode where all guest processes run inside a single host process. The patch reintroduces the saving and restoring of the FP context between task switches. [richard@nod.at: Ingo posted this patch in 2009, sadly it was never applied and got lost. Now in 2011 the problem was reported by Gunnar.] Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reported-by: <gunnarlindroth@hotmail.com> Tested-by: <gunnarlindroth@hotmail.com> Cc: Stanislav Meduna <stano@meduna.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Some time ago Jeff prepared 42daba316557 ("uml: stop saving process FP
state") for UML to stop saving the process FP state between task
switches.  The assumption was that since with SKAS0 every guest process
runs inside a host process context the host OS will take care of keeping
the proper FP state.

Unfortunately this is not true for multi-threaded applications, where
all guest threads share a single host process context yet all may use
the FPU on their own.  Although I haven't verified it I suspect things
to be even worse in SKAS3 mode where all guest processes run inside a
single host process.

The patch reintroduces the saving and restoring of the FP context
between task switches.

[richard@nod.at: Ingo posted this patch in 2009, sadly it was never applied
and got lost. Now in 2011 the problem was reported by Gunnar.]

Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reported-by: <gunnarlindroth@hotmail.com>
Tested-by: <gunnarlindroth@hotmail.com>
Cc: Stanislav Meduna <stano@meduna.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
x86, um: take arch/um/include/* out of the way 2008-10-23T05:55:19+00:00 Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk 2008-08-17T17:48:37+00:00 8569c9140bd41089f9b6be8837ca421102714a90 We can't just plop asm/* into it - userland helpers are built with it in search path and seeing asm/* show up there suddenly would be a bad idea. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 
We can't just plop asm/* into it - userland helpers are built with it
in search path and seeing asm/* show up there suddenly would be a bad
idea.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>