Commit e6365084 authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86/fpu: Finish excising 'eagerfpu'

Now that eagerfpu= is gone, remove it from the docs and some
comments.  Also sync the changes to tools/.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cf430dd4481d41280e93ac6cf0def1007a67fc8e.1476740397.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 4d69f155
......@@ -1074,12 +1074,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
in some Intel CPUs.
eagerfpu= [X86]
on enable eager fpu restore
off disable eager fpu restore
auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
module.async_probe [KNL]
Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
......
......@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_EXTD_APICID ( 3*32+26) /* has extended APICID (8 bits) */
#define X86_FEATURE_AMD_DCM ( 3*32+27) /* multi-node processor */
#define X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF ( 3*32+28) /* APERFMPERF */
/* free, was #define X86_FEATURE_EAGER_FPU ( 3*32+29) * "eagerfpu" Non lazy FPU restore */
#define X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3 ( 3*32+30) /* TSC doesn't stop in S3 state */
/* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */
......
......@@ -329,29 +329,6 @@ struct fpu {
* the registers in the FPU are more recent than this state
* copy. If the task context-switches away then they get
* saved here and represent the FPU state.
*
* After context switches there may be a (short) time period
* during which the in-FPU hardware registers are unchanged
* and still perfectly match this state, if the tasks
* scheduled afterwards are not using the FPU.
*
* This is the 'lazy restore' window of optimization, which
* we track though 'fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx' and 'fpu->last_cpu'.
*
* We detect whether a subsequent task uses the FPU via setting
* CR0::TS to 1, which causes any FPU use to raise a #NM fault.
*
* During this window, if the task gets scheduled again, we
* might be able to skip having to do a restore from this
* memory buffer to the hardware registers - at the cost of
* incurring the overhead of #NM fault traps.
*
* Note that on modern CPUs that support the XSAVEOPT (or other
* optimized XSAVE instructions), we don't use #NM traps anymore,
* as the hardware can track whether FPU registers need saving
* or not. On such CPUs we activate the non-lazy ('eagerfpu')
* logic, which unconditionally saves/restores all FPU state
* across context switches. (if FPU state exists.)
*/
union fpregs_state state;
/*
......
......@@ -141,8 +141,7 @@ u32 init_pkru_value = PKRU_AD_KEY( 1) | PKRU_AD_KEY( 2) | PKRU_AD_KEY( 3) |
* Called from the FPU code when creating a fresh set of FPU
* registers. This is called from a very specific context where
* we know the FPU regstiers are safe for use and we can use PKRU
* directly. The fact that PKRU is only available when we are
* using eagerfpu mode makes this possible.
* directly.
*/
void copy_init_pkru_to_fpregs(void)
{
......
......@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_EXTD_APICID ( 3*32+26) /* has extended APICID (8 bits) */
#define X86_FEATURE_AMD_DCM ( 3*32+27) /* multi-node processor */
#define X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF ( 3*32+28) /* APERFMPERF */
#define X86_FEATURE_EAGER_FPU ( 3*32+29) /* "eagerfpu" Non lazy FPU restore */
#define X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3 ( 3*32+30) /* TSC doesn't stop in S3 state */
/* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */
......
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