linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/kernel/process.c, branch v4.2.7

x86/idle: Restore trace_cpu_idle to mwait_idle() calls

2015-08-20T19:37:45+00:00

Commit b253149b843f ("sched/idle/x86: Restore mwait_idle() to fix boot
hangs, to improve power savings and to improve performance") restores
mwait_idle(), but the trace_cpu_idle related calls are missing. This
causes powertop on my old desktop powered by Intel Core2 E6550 to
report zero wakeups and zero events.

Add them back to restore the proper behaviour.

Fixes: b253149b843f ("sched/idle/x86: Restore mwait_idle() to ...")
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang 
Cc: 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1440046479-4262-1-git-send-email-jszhang@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86/fpu, sched: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT and use it on x86

2015-07-18T01:42:51+00:00

Don't burden architectures without dynamic task_struct sizing
with the overhead of dynamic sizing.

Also optimize the x86 code a bit by caching task_struct_size.

Acked-and-Tested-by: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437128892-9831-3-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/fpu, sched: Dynamically allocate 'struct fpu'

2015-07-18T01:42:35+00:00

The FPU rewrite removed the dynamic allocations of 'struct fpu'.
But, this potentially wastes massive amounts of memory (2k per
task on systems that do not have AVX-512 for instance).

Instead of having a separate slab, this patch just appends the
space that we need to the 'task_struct' which we dynamically
allocate already.  This saves from doing an extra slab
allocation at fork().

The only real downside here is that we have to stick everything
and the end of the task_struct.  But, I think the
BUILD_BUG_ON()s I stuck in there should keep that from being too
fragile.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437128892-9831-2-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-06-23T00:16:11+00:00

Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains two main changes:

   - The big FPU code rewrite: wide reaching cleanups and reorganization
     that pulls all the FPU code together into a clean base in
     arch/x86/fpu/.

     The resulting code is leaner and faster, and much easier to
     understand.  This enables future work to further simplify the FPU
     code (such as removing lazy FPU restores).

     By its nature these changes have a substantial regression risk: FPU
     code related bugs are long lived, because races are often subtle
     and bugs mask as user-space failures that are difficult to track
     back to kernel side backs.  I'm aware of no unfixed (or even
     suspected) FPU related regression so far.

   - MPX support rework/fixes.  As this is still not a released CPU
     feature, there were some buglets in the code - should be much more
     robust now (Dave Hansen)"

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (250 commits)
  x86/fpu: Fix double-increment in setup_xstate_features()
  x86/mpx: Allow 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels again
  x86/mpx: Do not count MPX VMAs as neighbors when unmapping
  x86/mpx: Rewrite the unmap code
  x86/mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels
  x86/mpx: Use 32-bit-only cmpxchg() for 32-bit apps
  x86/mpx: Introduce new 'directory entry' to 'addr' helper function
  x86/mpx: Add temporary variable to reduce masking
  x86: Make is_64bit_mm() widely available
  x86/mpx: Trace allocation of new bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace entry to bounds exception paths
  x86/mpx: Trace #BR exceptions
  x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag
  x86/mpx: Restrict the mmap() size check to bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Remove redundant MPX_BNDCFG_ADDR_MASK
  x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary
  x86/mpx: Use the new get_xsave_field_ptr()API
  x86/fpu/xstate: Wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer
  x86/fpu/xstate: Fix up bad get_xsave_addr() assumptions
  ...

sched/x86: Drop repeated word from mwait_idle() comment

2015-05-27T12:38:04+00:00

A single "default" is fine.

Signed-off-by: Huang Rui 
[ Fix another typo and reflow comment. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432022472-2224-5-git-send-email-ray.huang@amd.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432628901-18044-7-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/fpu: Move fpu__clear() to 'struct fpu *' parameter passing

2015-05-19T13:48:04+00:00

Do it like all other high level FPU state handling functions: they
only know about struct fpu, not about the task.

(Also remove a dead prototype while at it.)

Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/fpu: Synchronize the naming of drop_fpu() and fpu_reset_state()

2015-05-19T13:48:03+00:00

drop_fpu() and fpu_reset_state() are similar in functionality
and in scope, yet this is not apparent from their names.

drop_fpu() deactivates FPU contents (both the fpregs and the fpstate),
but leaves register contents intact in the eager-FPU case, mostly as an
optimization. It disables fpregs in the lazy FPU case. The drop_fpu()
method can be used to destroy FPU state in an optimized way, when we
know that a new state will be loaded before user-space might see
any remains of the old FPU state:

     - such as in sys_exit()'s exit_thread() where we know this task
       won't execute any user-space instructions anymore and the
       next context switch cleans up the FPU. The old FPU state
       might still be around in the eagerfpu case but won't be
       saved.

     - in __restore_xstate_sig(), where we use drop_fpu() before
       copying a new state into the fpstate and activating that one.
       No user-pace instructions can execute between those steps.

     - in sys_execve()'s fpu__clear(): there we use drop_fpu() in
       the !eagerfpu case, where it's equivalent to a full reinit.

fpu_reset_state() is a stronger version of drop_fpu(): both in
the eagerfpu and the lazy-FPU case it guarantees that fpregs
are reinitialized to init state. This method is used in cases
where we need a full reset:

     - handle_signal() uses fpu_reset_state() to reset the FPU state
       to init before executing a user-space signal handler. While we
       have already saved the original FPU state at this point, and
       always restore the original state, the signal handling code
       still has to do this reinit, because signals may interrupt
       any user-space instruction, and the FPU might be in various
       intermediate states (such as an unbalanced x87 stack) that is
       not immediately usable for general C signal handler code.

     - __restore_xstate_sig() uses fpu_reset_state() when the signal
       frame has no FP context. Since the signal handler may have
       modified the FPU state, it gets reset back to init state.

     - in another branch __restore_xstate_sig() uses fpu_reset_state()
       to handle a restoration error: when restore_user_xstate() fails
       to restore FPU state and we might have inconsistent FPU data,
       fpu_reset_state() is used to reset it back to a known good
       state.

     - __kernel_fpu_end() uses fpu_reset_state() in an error branch.
       This is in a 'must not trigger' error branch, so on bug-free
       kernels this never triggers.

     - fpu__restore() uses fpu_reset_state() in an error path
       as well: if the fpstate was set up with invalid FPU state
       (via ptrace or via a signal handler), then it's reset back
       to init state.

     - likewise, the scheduler's switch_fpu_finish() uses it in a
       restoration error path too.

Move both drop_fpu() and fpu_reset_state() to the fpu__*() namespace
and harmonize their naming with their function:

    fpu__drop()
    fpu__reset()

This clearly shows that both methods operate on the full state of the
FPU, just like fpu__restore().

Also add comments to explain what each function does.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/fpu: Remove failure paths from fpstate-alloc low level functions

2015-05-19T13:47:50+00:00

Now that we always allocate the FPU context as part of task_struct there's
no need for separate allocations - remove them and their primary failure
handling code.

( Note that there's still secondary error codes that have become superfluous,
  those will be removed in separate patches. )

Move the somewhat misplaced setup_xstate_comp() call to the core.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/fpu: Rename fpu-internal.h to fpu/internal.h

2015-05-19T13:47:31+00:00

This unifies all the FPU related header files under a unified, hiearchical
naming scheme:

 - asm/fpu/types.h:      FPU related data types, needed for 'struct task_struct',
                         widely included in almost all kernel code, and hence kept
                         as small as possible.

 - asm/fpu/api.h:        FPU related 'public' methods exported to other subsystems.

 - asm/fpu/internal.h:   FPU subsystem internal methods

 - asm/fpu/xsave.h:      XSAVE support internal methods

(Also standardize the header guard in asm/fpu/internal.h.)

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/fpu: Rename fpu__flush_thread() to fpu__clear()

2015-05-19T13:47:29+00:00

The primary purpose of this function is to clear the current task's
FPU before an exec(), to not leak information from the previous task,
and to allow the new task to start with freshly initialized FPU
registers.

Rename the function to reflect this primary purpose.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar