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Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:05:25 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Unify the naming of the FPU register cache validity
 flags


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:

> What we could do is to unify the naming to explain all this a bit better - right 
> now there's very little indication that ->fpregs_cached is closely related to 
> fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx.
> 
> For example we could rename them to:
> 
> 	->fpregs_cached         =>     ->fpregs_owner        [bool]
> 	fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx    =>       fpregs_owner_ctx    [ptr]
> 
> ?
> 
> Clearing ->fpregs_owner or setting fpregs_owner_ctx to NULL invalidates the 
> cache and it's clear from the naming that the two values are closely related.

Something like the patch below - only minimally tested.

Thanks,

	Ingo

================>
>From d5b99e1e25f86d4880bf85588eb4a4769610dd47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:01:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Unify the naming of the FPU register cache validity flags

Rik pointed out that the fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx and the ->fpregs_cached
flags are still described in a confusing way.

Clarify this some more by renaming them to:

        ->fpregs_cached         =>     ->fpregs_owner        [bool]
        fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx    =>       fpregs_owner_ctx    [ptr]

... which better expresses that they are a cache validity flag
split into two parts, where the cache can be invalidated if any
of the flags is cleared.

Also describe this relationship more accurately in the fpu/types.h header.

No change in functionality.

Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h    | 12 ++++++++++--
 arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h    |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c          |  4 ++--
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c           |  2 +-
 5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
index e62eee2e989e..bbee00aac864 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
@@ -486,11 +486,11 @@ extern int copy_fpstate_to_sigframe(void __user *buf, void __user *fp, int size)
  * FPU context switch related helper methods:
  */
 
-DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct fpu *, fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx);
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct fpu *, fpregs_owner_ctx);
 
 /*
  * The in-register FPU state for an FPU context on a CPU is assumed to be
- * valid if fpu->fpregs_cached is still set, and if the fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx
+ * valid if fpu->fpregs_owner is still set, and if the fpregs_owner_ctx
  * matches the FPU.
  *
  * If the FPU register state is valid, the kernel can skip restoring the
@@ -507,17 +507,17 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct fpu *, fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx);
  */
 static inline void __cpu_invalidate_fpregs_state(void)
 {
-	__this_cpu_write(fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx, NULL);
+	__this_cpu_write(fpregs_owner_ctx, NULL);
 }
 
 static inline void __fpu_invalidate_fpregs_state(struct fpu *fpu)
 {
-	fpu->fpregs_cached = 0;
+	fpu->fpregs_owner = 0;
 }
 
 static inline int fpregs_state_valid(struct fpu *fpu, unsigned int cpu)
 {
-	return fpu == this_cpu_read_stable(fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx) && fpu->fpregs_cached;
+	return fpu == this_cpu_read_stable(fpregs_owner_ctx) && fpu->fpregs_owner;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -526,13 +526,13 @@ static inline int fpregs_state_valid(struct fpu *fpu, unsigned int cpu)
  */
 static inline void fpregs_deactivate(struct fpu *fpu)
 {
-	this_cpu_write(fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx, NULL);
+	this_cpu_write(fpregs_owner_ctx, NULL);
 	trace_x86_fpu_regs_deactivated(fpu);
 }
 
 static inline void fpregs_activate(struct fpu *fpu)
 {
-	this_cpu_write(fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx, fpu);
+	this_cpu_write(fpregs_owner_ctx, fpu);
 	trace_x86_fpu_regs_activated(fpu);
 }
 
@@ -552,14 +552,14 @@ switch_fpu_prepare(struct fpu *old_fpu, int cpu)
 {
 	if (old_fpu->fpstate_active) {
 		if (!copy_fpregs_to_fpstate(old_fpu))
-			old_fpu->fpregs_cached = 0;
+			old_fpu->fpregs_owner = 0;
 		else
-			old_fpu->fpregs_cached = 1;
+			old_fpu->fpregs_owner = 1;
 
-		/* But leave fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx! */
+		/* But leave fpregs_owner_ctx! */
 		trace_x86_fpu_regs_deactivated(old_fpu);
 	} else {
-		old_fpu->fpregs_cached = 0;
+		old_fpu->fpregs_owner = 0;
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
index 07452fbd7867..d15cbfe0e8c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
@@ -285,14 +285,22 @@ struct fpu {
 	unsigned char			fpstate_active;
 
 	/*
-	 * @fpregs_cached:
+	 * @fpregs_owner:
 	 *
 	 * This flag tells us whether this context is loaded into a CPU
 	 * right now.
 	 *
 	 * This is set to 0 if a task is migrated to another CPU.
+	 *
+	 * NOTE: the fpregs_owner_ctx percpu pointer also has to point to
+	 *       this FPU context for the register cache to be valid. If any
+	 *       of these two flags is cleared then the cache is invalid.
+	 *       Some internals can access the context-flag more easily,
+	 *       others have easier access to the percpu variable. The
+	 *       FPU context-switching code has access to both so there's
+	 *       very little cost of having the cache indexed in two ways:
 	 */
-	unsigned char			fpregs_cached;
+	unsigned char			fpregs_owner;
 
 	/*
 	 * @state:
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
index a7146dadb31d..7a4915dd0547 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ do {									\
  */
 static inline void arch_task_migrate(struct task_struct *p)
 {
-	p->thread.fpu.fpregs_cached = 0;
+	p->thread.fpu.fpregs_owner = 0;
 }
 #define arch_task_migrate arch_task_migrate
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index 217e37029585..1b3bf98072fe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, in_kernel_fpu);
 /*
  * Track which context is using the FPU on the CPU:
  */
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct fpu *, fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct fpu *, fpregs_owner_ctx);
 
 static void kernel_fpu_disable(void)
 {
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fpstate_init);
 
 int fpu__copy(struct fpu *dst_fpu, struct fpu *src_fpu)
 {
-	dst_fpu->fpregs_cached = 0;
+	dst_fpu->fpregs_owner = 0;
 
 	if (!src_fpu->fpstate_active || !static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FPU))
 		return 0;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 46732dc3b73c..8bf24aa01878 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ int native_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *tidle)
 		return err;
 
 	/* the FPU context is blank, nobody can own it */
-	per_cpu(fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx, cpu) = NULL;
+	per_cpu(fpregs_owner_ctx, cpu) = NULL;
 
 	common_cpu_up(cpu, tidle);
 

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