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Message-Id: <20190919150808.617944343@linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:03:16 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: x86@...nel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC patch 02/15] x86/entry: Remove _TIF_NOHZ from
_TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY
Evaluating _TIF_NOHZ to decide whether to use the slow syscall entry path
is not only pointless, it's actually counterproductive:
1) Context tracking code is invoked unconditionally before that flag is
evaluated.
2) If the flag is set the slow path is invoked for nothing due to #1
Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -133,14 +133,10 @@ struct thread_info {
#define _TIF_X32 (1 << TIF_X32)
#define _TIF_FSCHECK (1 << TIF_FSCHECK)
-/*
- * work to do in syscall_trace_enter(). Also includes TIF_NOHZ for
- * enter_from_user_mode()
- */
+/* Work to do before invoking the actual syscall. */
#define _TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY \
(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU | _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT | \
- _TIF_SECCOMP | _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT | \
- _TIF_NOHZ)
+ _TIF_SECCOMP | _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT)
/* flags to check in __switch_to() */
#define _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_BASE \
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