linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] i387: support lazy restore of FPU state

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Date:	Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:19:24 -0500
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Jongman Heo <jongman.heo@...sung.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] i387: support lazy restore of FPU state

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:14 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>> On 02/20/2012 06:10 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>
>>> Although I do wonder if we should just make kernel_fpu_begin() be a
>>> real function instead of inlining it. I'm not sure it makes sense to
>>> inline that thing, and it might be better to export that one instead.
>>> Comments?
>>
>> I would agree with that.
>
> So I have a patch that does that, but it's noticeably bigger.
>
> It uninlines a fair amount of i387.h, and moves it into i387.c. I do
> think it's probably the right thing to do, though.
>
> I did a "make allmodconfig" with this on x86-64, but it's quite
> possible that x86-32 does additional cases. Does this patch work for
> people?
>
> (This is *on*top*of* the quick "let's just get it to work" patch that
> just exports the new percpu variable. I already committed that and
> pushed it out, since I wanted a quick fix so that people wouldn't be
> held up by this)
>
> IOW, if you can try this on top of current -git, that would be lovely.

The quick patch cleared up the build issue I was seeing.  Thanks for the quick
fix.  I'll try building with this one a bit later today as well.

josh
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