linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] x86, fpu: copy_process: avoid fpu_alloc/copy if !used

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Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:51:58 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@...il.com>
Cc:	Bean Anderson <bean@...lsystems.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] x86, fpu: copy_process: avoid fpu_alloc/copy if
	!used_math()

arch_dup_task_struct() copies thread.fpu if fpu_allocated(), this
looks suboptimal and misleading. Say, a forking process could use
FPU only once in a signal handler but now tsk_used_math(src) == F,
in this case the child gets a copy of fpu->state for no reason. The
child won't use the saved registers anyway even if it starts to use
FPU, this can only avoid fpu_alloc() in do_device_not_available().

Change this code to check tsk_used_math(current) instead. We still
need to clear fpu->has_fpu/state, we could do this memset(0) under
fpu_allocated() check but I think this doesn't make sense. See also
the next change.

use_eager_fpu() assumes that fpu_allocated() is always true, but a
forking task (and thus its child) must always have PF_USED_MATH set,
otherwise the child can either use FPU without used_math() (note that
switch_fpu_prepare() doesn't do stts() in this case), or it will be
killed by do_device_not_available()->BUG_ON(use_eager_fpu).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c |   13 ++++++-------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 08c5ded..60076b4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -64,14 +64,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(task_xstate_cachep);
  */
 int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
 {
-	int ret;
-
 	*dst = *src;
-	if (fpu_allocated(&src->thread.fpu)) {
-		memset(&dst->thread.fpu, 0, sizeof(dst->thread.fpu));
-		ret = fpu_alloc(&dst->thread.fpu);
-		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+
+	memset(&dst->thread.fpu, 0, sizeof(dst->thread.fpu));
+	if (tsk_used_math(src)) {
+		int err = fpu_alloc(&dst->thread.fpu);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
 		fpu_copy(dst, src);
 	}
 	return 0;
-- 
1.5.5.1

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