linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/x86/fpu 5/6] x86/fpu: fpu__drop: check TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD instead of PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER

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Message-ID: <20250503143856.GA9009@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 16:38:56 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Chang S . Bae" <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/x86/fpu 5/6] x86/fpu: fpu__drop: check TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD
 instead of PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER

PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER tasks should never clear TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD,
so the TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD check should equally filter them out.

And this way an exiting userspace task can avoid the unnecessary "fwait"
if it does context_switch() at least once on its way to exit_thread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index 8d674435f173..fa131299c7da 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -693,8 +693,7 @@ void fpu__drop(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	struct fpu *fpu;
 
-	/* PF_KTHREAD tasks do not use the FPU context area: */
-	if (tsk->flags & (PF_KTHREAD | PF_USER_WORKER))
+	if (test_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD))
 		return;
 
 	fpu = x86_task_fpu(tsk);
-- 
2.25.1.362.g51ebf55