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Message-Id: <1475627678-20788-6-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue,  4 Oct 2016 20:34:34 -0400
From:   riel@...hat.com
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, x86@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        pbonzini@...hat.com, mingo@...hat.com, luto@...nel.org,
        pa@...or.com, bp@...e.de
Subject: [PATCH 5/9] x86/fpu: remove fpu.counter

From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

With the lazy FPU code gone, we no longer use the counter field
in struct fpu for anything. Get rid it.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h |  3 ---
 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h    | 11 -----------
 arch/x86/include/asm/trace/fpu.h    |  5 +----
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c          |  3 ---
 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
index 7801d32347a2..499d6ed0e376 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
@@ -581,16 +581,13 @@ switch_fpu_prepare(struct fpu *old_fpu, struct fpu *new_fpu, int cpu)
 
 		/* Don't change CR0.TS if we just switch! */
 		if (fpu.preload) {
-			new_fpu->counter++;
 			__fpregs_activate(new_fpu);
 			trace_x86_fpu_regs_activated(new_fpu);
 			prefetch(&new_fpu->state);
 		}
 	} else {
-		old_fpu->counter = 0;
 		old_fpu->last_cpu = -1;
 		if (fpu.preload) {
-			new_fpu->counter++;
 			if (fpu_want_lazy_restore(new_fpu, cpu))
 				fpu.preload = 0;
 			else
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
index 48df486b02f9..e31332d6f0e8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
@@ -322,17 +322,6 @@ struct fpu {
 	unsigned char			fpregs_active;
 
 	/*
-	 * @counter:
-	 *
-	 * This counter contains the number of consecutive context switches
-	 * during which the FPU stays used. If this is over a threshold, the
-	 * lazy FPU restore logic becomes eager, to save the trap overhead.
-	 * This is an unsigned char so that after 256 iterations the counter
-	 * wraps and the context switch behavior turns lazy again; this is to
-	 * deal with bursty apps that only use the FPU for a short time:
-	 */
-	unsigned char			counter;
-	/*
 	 * @state:
 	 *
 	 * In-memory copy of all FPU registers that we save/restore
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/fpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/fpu.h
index 9217ab1f5bf6..342e59789fcd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/fpu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/trace/fpu.h
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(x86_fpu,
 		__field(struct fpu *, fpu)
 		__field(bool, fpregs_active)
 		__field(bool, fpstate_active)
-		__field(int, counter)
 		__field(u64, xfeatures)
 		__field(u64, xcomp_bv)
 		),
@@ -23,17 +22,15 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(x86_fpu,
 		__entry->fpu		= fpu;
 		__entry->fpregs_active	= fpu->fpregs_active;
 		__entry->fpstate_active	= fpu->fpstate_active;
-		__entry->counter	= fpu->counter;
 		if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_OSXSAVE)) {
 			__entry->xfeatures = fpu->state.xsave.header.xfeatures;
 			__entry->xcomp_bv  = fpu->state.xsave.header.xcomp_bv;
 		}
 	),
-	TP_printk("x86/fpu: %p fpregs_active: %d fpstate_active: %d counter: %d xfeatures: %llx xcomp_bv: %llx",
+	TP_printk("x86/fpu: %p fpregs_active: %d fpstate_active: %d xfeatures: %llx xcomp_bv: %llx",
 			__entry->fpu,
 			__entry->fpregs_active,
 			__entry->fpstate_active,
-			__entry->counter,
 			__entry->xfeatures,
 			__entry->xcomp_bv
 	)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index 036e14fe3b77..6a37d525bdbe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -222,7 +222,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fpstate_init);
 
 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;
 
@@ -430,7 +429,6 @@ void fpu__restore(struct fpu *fpu)
 	trace_x86_fpu_before_restore(fpu);
 	fpregs_activate(fpu);
 	copy_kernel_to_fpregs(&fpu->state);
-	fpu->counter++;
 	trace_x86_fpu_after_restore(fpu);
 	kernel_fpu_enable();
 }
@@ -448,7 +446,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fpu__restore);
 void fpu__drop(struct fpu *fpu)
 {
 	preempt_disable();
-	fpu->counter = 0;
 
 	if (fpu->fpregs_active) {
 		/* Ignore delayed exceptions from user space */
-- 
2.7.4

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