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    x86/fpu: Remove preempt_disable() in fpu__clear() · 60e528d6
    Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored
    The preempt_disable() section was introduced in commit
    
      a10b6a16 ("x86/fpu: Make the fpu state change in fpu__clear() scheduler-atomic")
    
    and it was said to be temporary.
    
    fpu__initialize() initializes the FPU struct to its initial value and
    then sets ->initialized to 1. The last part is the important one.
    The content of the state does not matter because it gets set via
    copy_init_fpstate_to_fpregs().
    
    A preemption here has little meaning because the registers will always be
    set to the same content after copy_init_fpstate_to_fpregs(). A softirq
    with a kernel_fpu_begin() could also force to save FPU's registers after
    fpu__initialize() without changing the outcome here.
    
    Remove the preempt_disable() section in fpu__clear(), preemption here
    does not hurt.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
    Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
    Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
    Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190403164156.19645-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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