We have eager and lazy FPU modes, introduced in:
304bceda6a ("x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave")
The result is rather messy. There are two code paths in almost all
of the FPU code, and only one of them (the eager case) is tested
frequently, since most kernel developers have new enough hardware
that we use eagerfpu.
It seems that, on any remotely recent hardware, eagerfpu is a win:
glibc uses SSE2, so laziness is probably overoptimistic, and, in any
case, manipulating TS is far slower that saving and restoring the
full state. (Stores to CR0.TS are serializing and are poorly
optimized.)
To try to shake out any latent issues on old hardware, this changes
the default to eager on all CPUs. If no performance or functionality
problems show up, a subsequent patch could remove lazy mode entirely.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.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: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: yu-cheng yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac290de61bf08d9cfc2664a4f5080257ffc1075a.1453675014.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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