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In case of nested user of the FPU or vector registers in the kernel
the current code uses the mask of the FPU/vector registers of the
previous contexts to decide which registers to save and restore.
E.g. if the previous context used KERNEL_VXR_V0V7 and the next
context wants to use KERNEL_VXR_V24V31 the first 8 vector registers
are stored to the FPU state structure. But this is not necessary
as the next context does not use these registers.
Rework the FPU/vector register save and restore code. The new code
does a few things differently:
1) A lowcore field is used instead of a per-cpu variable.
2) The kernel_fpu_end function now has two parameters just like
kernel_fpu_begin. The register flags are required by both
functions to save / restore the minimal register set.
3) The inline functions kernel_fpu_begin/kernel_fpu_end now do the
update of the register masks. If the user space FPU registers
have already been stored neither save_fpu_regs nor the
__kernel_fpu_begin/__kernel_fpu_end functions have to be called
for the first context. In this case kernel_fpu_begin adds 7
instructions and kernel_fpu_end adds 4 instructions.
3) The inline assemblies in __kernel_fpu_begin / __kernel_fpu_end
to save / restore the vector registers are simplified a bit.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"There are a couple of new things for s390 with this merge request:
- a new scheduling domain "drawer" is added to reflect the unusual
topology found on z13 machines. Performance tests showed up to 8
percent gain with the additional domain.
- the new crc-32 checksum crypto module uses the vector-galois-field
multiply and sum SIMD instruction to speed up crc-32 and crc-32c.
- proper __ro_after_init support, this requires RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA in
the generic vmlinux.lds linker script definitions.
- kcov instrumentation support. A prerequisite for that is the
inline assembly basic block cleanup, which is the reason for the
net/iucv/iucv.c change.
- support for 2GB pages is added to the hugetlbfs backend.
Then there are two removals:
- the oprofile hardware sampling support is dead code and is removed.
The oprofile user space uses the perf interface nowadays.
- the ETR clock synchronization is removed, this has been superseeded
be the STP clock synchronization. And it always has been
"interesting" code..
And the usual bug fixes and cleanups"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (82 commits)
s390/pci: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "pci_dev_put"
s390/smp: clean up a condition
s390/cio/chp : Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
s390/chsc: improve channel path descriptor determination
s390/chsc: sanitize fmt check for chp_desc determination
s390/cio: make fmt1 channel path descriptor optional
s390/chsc: fix ioctl CHSC_INFO_CU command
s390/cio/device_ops: fix kernel doc
s390/cio: allow to reset channel measurement block
s390/console: Make preferred console handling more consistent
s390/mm: fix gmap tlb flush issues
s390/mm: add support for 2GB hugepages
s390: have unique symbol for __switch_to address
s390/cpuinfo: show maximum thread id
s390/ptrace: clarify bits in the per_struct
s390: stack address vs thread_info
s390: remove pointless load within __switch_to
s390: enable kcov support
s390/cpumf: use basic block for ecctr inline assembly
s390/hypfs: use basic block for diag inline assembly
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The test_fp_ctl function is used to test if a given value is a valid
floating-point control. The inline assembly in test_fp_ctl uses an
incorrect constraint for the 'orig_fpc' variable. If the compiler
chooses the same register for 'fpc' and 'orig_fpc' the test_fp_ctl()
function always returns true. This allows user space to trigger
kernel oopses with invalid floating-point control values on the
signal stack.
This problem has been introduced with git commit 4725c86055f5bbdcdf
"s390: fix save and restore of the floating-point-control register"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Introduce the kernel_fpu_begin() and kernel_fpu_end() function
to enclose any in-kernel use of FPU instructions and registers.
In enclosed sections, you can perform floating-point or vector
(SIMD) computations. The functions take care of saving and
restoring FPU register contents and controls.
For usage details, see the guidelines in arch/s390/include/asm/fpu/api.h
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Split the API and FPU type definitions into separate header files
similar to "x86/fpu: Rename fpu-internal.h to fpu/internal.h" (78f7f1e54b).
The new header files and their meaning are:
asm/fpu/types.h:
FPU related data types, needed for 'struct thread_struct' and
'struct task_struct'.
asm/fpu/api.h:
FPU related 'public' functions for other subsystems and device
drivers.
asm/fpu/internal.h:
FPU internal functions mainly used to convert
FPU register contents in signal handling.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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