linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 14/15] mips: properly lock access to the fpu

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Message-Id: <1430934639-2131-15-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed,  6 May 2015 19:50:38 +0200
From:	David Hildenbrand <dahi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: [PATCH RFC 14/15] mips: properly lock access to the fpu

Let's always disable preemption and pagefaults when locking the fpu,
so we can be sure that the owner won't change in between.

This is a preparation for pagefault_disable() not touching preemption
anymore.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/mips/kernel/signal-common.h | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/signal-common.h b/arch/mips/kernel/signal-common.h
index 06805e0..0b85f82 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/signal-common.h
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/signal-common.h
@@ -28,12 +28,7 @@ extern void __user *get_sigframe(struct ksignal *ksig, struct pt_regs *regs,
 extern int fpcsr_pending(unsigned int __user *fpcsr);
 
 /* Make sure we will not lose FPU ownership */
-#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
-#define lock_fpu_owner()	preempt_disable()
-#define unlock_fpu_owner()	preempt_enable()
-#else
-#define lock_fpu_owner()	pagefault_disable()
-#define unlock_fpu_owner()	pagefault_enable()
-#endif
+#define lock_fpu_owner()	({ preempt_disable(); pagefault_disable(); })
+#define unlock_fpu_owner()	({ pagefault_enable(); preempt_enable(); })
 
 #endif	/* __SIGNAL_COMMON_H */
-- 
2.1.4

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