linux-kernel - [patch 02/31] x86/fpu: Update stale comments

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Message-ID: <20211011223610.404292507@linutronix.de>
Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 02:00:00 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: [patch 02/31] x86/fpu: Update stale comments

copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() does not have a slow path anymore. Neither does
the !ia32 restore in __fpu_restore_sig().

Update the comments accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c |   13 +++----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c
@@ -155,10 +155,8 @@ static inline int copy_fpregs_to_sigfram
  *	buf == buf_fx for 64-bit frames and 32-bit fsave frame.
  *	buf != buf_fx for 32-bit frames with fxstate.
  *
- * Try to save it directly to the user frame with disabled page fault handler.
- * If this fails then do the slow path where the FPU state is first saved to
- * task's fpu->state and then copy it to the user frame pointed to by the
- * aligned pointer 'buf_fx'.
+ * Save it directly to the user frame with disabled page fault handler. If
+ * that faults, try to clear the frame which handles the page fault.
  *
  * If this is a 32-bit frame with fxstate, put a fsave header before
  * the aligned state at 'buf_fx'.
@@ -334,12 +332,7 @@ static bool __fpu_restore_sig(void __use
 	}
 
 	if (likely(!ia32_fxstate)) {
-		/*
-		 * Attempt to restore the FPU registers directly from user
-		 * memory. For that to succeed, the user access cannot cause page
-		 * faults. If it does, fall back to the slow path below, going
-		 * through the kernel buffer with the enabled pagefault handler.
-		 */
+		/* Restore the FPU registers directly from user memory. */
 		return restore_fpregs_from_user(buf_fx, user_xfeatures, fx_only,
 						state_size);
 	}