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| author | Avi Kivity | 2010-05-06 10:45:45 +0200 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin | 2010-05-10 19:39:33 +0200 |
| commit | c9ad488289144ae5ef53b012e15895ef1f5e4bb6 (patch) | |
| tree | 06c29cda09e204d3b0b5b3d9a2a97bda0b4e340d /arch/x86/kernel/process.c | |
| parent | x86-32: Don't set ignore_fpu_irq in simd exception (diff) | |
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x86: Eliminate TS_XSAVE
The fpu code currently uses current->thread_info->status & TS_XSAVE as
a way to distinguish between XSAVE capable processors and older processors.
The decision is not really task specific; instead we use the task status to
avoid a global memory reference - the value should be the same across all
threads.
Eliminate this tie-in into the task structure by using an alternative
instruction keyed off the XSAVE cpu feature; this results in shorter and
faster code, without introducing a global memory reference.
[ hpa: in the future, this probably should use an asm jmp ]
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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