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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] x86/fpu: Simplify the fpu->last_cpu logic and rename it to fpu->fpregs_cached
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:23:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1485440636.15964.47.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1485429989-23340-2-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org>

On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 12:26 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> @@ -322,6 +308,16 @@ struct fpu {
>  	unsigned char			fpregs_active;
>  
>  	/*
> +	 * @fpregs_cached:
> +	 *
> +	 * This flag tells us whether this context is loaded into a
> CPU
> +	 * right now.

Not quite. You are still checking against fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx.

How about something like

      * This flag tells us whether this context was loaded into
      * its current CPU; fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx will tell us whether
      * this context is actually in the registers.

> +	 *
> +	 * This is set to 0 if a task is migrated to another CPU.
> +	 */
> +	unsigned char			fpregs_cached;
> +
> +	/*
>  	 * @state:
>  	 *
>  	 * In-memory copy of all FPU registers that we save/restore

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-26 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-26 11:26 [PATCH 0/7] x86/fpu: Simplify the FPU state machine Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 11:26 ` [PATCH 1/7] x86/fpu: Simplify the fpu->last_cpu logic and rename it to fpu->fpregs_cached Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 14:23   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2017-01-26 14:53     ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 15:05       ` [PATCH] x86/fpu: Unify the naming of the FPU register cache validity flags Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 15:31         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-01-26 14:54   ` [PATCH 1/7] x86/fpu: Simplify the fpu->last_cpu logic and rename it to fpu->fpregs_cached Rik van Riel
2017-01-26 15:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 16:51     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-26 11:26 ` [PATCH 2/7] x86/fpu: Simplify fpu->fpregs_active use Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 16:30   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-26 11:26 ` [PATCH 3/7] x86/fpu: Make the fpu state change in fpu__clear() scheduler-atomic Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 11:26 ` [PATCH 4/7] x86/fpu: Split the state handling in fpu__drop() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 11:26 ` [PATCH 5/7] x86/fpu: Change fpu->fpregs_active users to fpu->fpstate_active Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 14:44   ` Rik van Riel
2017-01-26 15:16     ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 15:45       ` Rik van Riel
2017-01-26 15:53         ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 17:00           ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-26 18:04             ` Rik van Riel
2017-01-26 11:26 ` [PATCH 6/7] x86/fpu: Decouple fpregs_activate()/fpregs_deactivate() from fpu->fpregs_active Ingo Molnar
2017-01-26 11:26 ` [PATCH 7/7] x86/fpu: Remove struct fpu::fpregs_active Ingo Molnar

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