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Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:56:04 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>,
	yu-cheng yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] x86/fpu: Fold fpu_copy into fpu__copy

Splitting it into two functions needlessly obfuscated the code.
While we're at it, improve the comment slightly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 32 +++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index 7a9244df33e2..299b58bb975b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -231,14 +231,15 @@ void fpstate_init(union fpregs_state *state)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fpstate_init);
 
-/*
- * Copy the current task's FPU state to a new task's FPU context.
- *
- * In both the 'eager' and the 'lazy' case we save hardware registers
- * directly to the destination buffer.
- */
-static void fpu_copy(struct fpu *dst_fpu, struct fpu *src_fpu)
+int fpu__copy(struct fpu *dst_fpu, struct fpu *src_fpu)
 {
+	dst_fpu->counter = 0;
+	dst_fpu->fpregs_active = 0;
+	dst_fpu->last_cpu = -1;
+
+	if (!src_fpu->fpstate_active || !cpu_has_fpu)
+		return 0;
+
 	WARN_ON_FPU(src_fpu != &current->thread.fpu);
 
 	/*
@@ -251,10 +252,9 @@ static void fpu_copy(struct fpu *dst_fpu, struct fpu *src_fpu)
 	/*
 	 * Save current FPU registers directly into the child
 	 * FPU context, without any memory-to-memory copying.
-	 *
-	 * If the FPU context got destroyed in the process (FNSAVE
-	 * done on old CPUs) then copy it back into the source
-	 * context and mark the current task for lazy restore.
+	 * In lazy mode, if the FPU context isn't loaded into
+	 * fpregs, CR0.TS will be set and do_device_not_available
+	 * will load the FPU context.
 	 *
 	 * We have to do all this with preemption disabled,
 	 * mostly because of the FNSAVE case, because in that
@@ -274,16 +274,6 @@ static void fpu_copy(struct fpu *dst_fpu, struct fpu *src_fpu)
 			fpregs_deactivate(src_fpu);
 	}
 	preempt_enable();
-}
-
-int fpu__copy(struct fpu *dst_fpu, struct fpu *src_fpu)
-{
-	dst_fpu->counter = 0;
-	dst_fpu->fpregs_active = 0;
-	dst_fpu->last_cpu = -1;
-
-	if (src_fpu->fpstate_active && cpu_has_fpu)
-		fpu_copy(dst_fpu, src_fpu);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.5.0