linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sparc, exec: remove redundant addr

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Date:	Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:08:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	minipli@...glemail.com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc, exec: remove redundant addr_limit assignment

From: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:10:53 +0200

> The address limit is already set in flush_old_exec() so this
> assignment of USER_DS is redundant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
 ...
> @@ -368,9 +368,6 @@ void flush_thread(void)
>  
>  	/* Clear FPU register state. */
>  	t->fpsaved[0] = 0;
> -	
> -	if (get_thread_current_ds() != ASI_AIUS)
> -		set_fs(USER_DS);
>  }

Yeah but now you're doing it unconditionally, the guard is here
because the %asi register write which set_fs() does is extremely
expensive on sparc64 and %99.99999 of the time we can avoid it.
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