linux/arch
Suresh Siddha 841e3604d3 x86, fpu: always use kernel_fpu_begin/end() for in-kernel FPU usage
use kernel_fpu_begin/end() instead of unconditionally accessing cr0 and
saving/restoring just the few used xmm/ymm registers.

This has some advantages like:
* If the task's FPU state is already active, then kernel_fpu_begin()
  will just save the user-state and avoiding the read/write of cr0.
  In general, cr0 accesses are much slower.

* Manual save/restore of xmm/ymm registers will affect the 'modified' and
  the 'init' optimizations brought in the by xsaveopt/xrstor
  infrastructure.

* Foward compatibility with future vector register extensions will be a
  problem if the xmm/ymm registers are manually saved and restored
  (corrupting the extended state of those vector registers).

With this patch, there was no significant difference in the xor throughput
using AVX, measured during boot.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-5-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: Jim Kukunas <james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-09-18 15:52:08 -07:00
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alpha alpha: Fix fall-out from disintegrating asm/system.h 2012-08-19 08:41:19 -07:00
arm arm-soc fixes for v3.6-rc3 2012-08-25 17:33:33 -07:00
avr32 ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k 2012-08-03 10:52:41 -07:00
c6x Enable atomic64 ops in C6X 2012-08-17 08:10:12 -07:00
cris ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-07-30 17:25:34 -07:00
h8300 ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
hexagon Merge branch 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2012-07-30 11:24:53 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] defconfig: Remove CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES 2012-08-20 13:04:29 -07:00
m32r ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
m68k m68k: select CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64 for all m68k CPU types 2012-08-17 10:04:24 +10:00
microblaze Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k 2012-08-03 10:52:41 -07:00
mips MIPS: pci-ar724x: avoid data bus error due to a missing PCIe module 2012-08-23 15:44:47 +02:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-07-30 17:25:34 -07:00
openrisc Remove useless wrappers of asm-generic/rmap.h 2012-06-28 11:29:26 +02:00
parisc [PARISC] fix personality flag check in copy_thread() 2012-08-03 11:25:12 +01:00
powerpc Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2012-08-25 17:30:18 -07:00
s390 s390/32: Don't clobber personality flags on exec 2012-08-30 16:28:07 +02:00
score new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
sh Merge branches 'sh/urgent' and 'sh/gpiolib' into sh-latest 2012-08-09 13:21:13 +09:00
sparc sparc64: Be less verbose during vmemmap population. 2012-08-15 00:37:29 -07:00
tile memcg: rename config variables 2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2012-08-01 16:45:02 -07:00
unicore32 PCI changes for the 3.6 merge window: 2012-07-24 16:17:07 -07:00
x86 x86, fpu: always use kernel_fpu_begin/end() for in-kernel FPU usage 2012-09-18 15:52:08 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: select generic atomic64_t support 2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00