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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2008-03-10 15:28:04 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-19 19:19:55 +0200
commit61c4628b538608c1a85211ed8438136adfeb9a95 (patch)
tree290a695299a363153bc692e6d705ac680d64359e /arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c
parentfa5c4639419668cbb18ca3d20c1253559a3b43ae (diff)
x86, fpu: split FPU state from task struct - v5
Split the FPU save area from the task struct. This allows easy migration of FPU context, and it's generally cleaner. It also allows the following two optimizations: 1) only allocate when the application actually uses FPU, so in the first lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps. Next patch does this lazy allocation. 2) allocate the right size for the actual cpu rather than 512 bytes always. Patches enabling xsave/xrstor support (coming shortly) will take advantage of this. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c
index dc4273010f2..8d136a73ce8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c
@@ -1208,11 +1208,6 @@ void __init trap_init(void)
#endif
set_trap_gate(19, &simd_coprocessor_error);
- /*
- * Verify that the FXSAVE/FXRSTOR data will be 16-byte aligned.
- * Generate a build-time error if the alignment is wrong.
- */
- BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct task_struct, thread.i387.fxsave) & 15);
if (cpu_has_fxsr) {
printk(KERN_INFO "Enabling fast FPU save and restore... ");
set_in_cr4(X86_CR4_OSFXSR);
@@ -1233,6 +1228,7 @@ void __init trap_init(void)
set_bit(SYSCALL_VECTOR, used_vectors);
+ init_thread_xstate();
/*
* Should be a barrier for any external CPU state:
*/