When a task which has used the FPU at some point in its past takes a
signal the kernel would previously always require the task to take
ownership of the FPU whilst setting up or restoring from the sigcontext.
That means that if the task has not used the FPU within this timeslice
then the kernel would enable the FPU, restore the task's FP context into
FPU registers and then save them into the sigcontext. This seems
inefficient, and if the signal handler doesn't use FP then enabling the
FPU & the extra memory accesses are entirely wasted work.
This patch modifies the sigcontext setup & restore code to copy directly
between the tasks saved FP context & the sigcontext for any tasks which
have used FP in the past but are not currently the FPU owner (ie. have
not used FP in this timeslice).
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6423/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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