x86/fpu: Clean up FPU switching in the middle of task switching
It happens to work, but it's very very wrong, because our 'current' macro is magic that is supposedly loading a stable value. It just happens to be not quite stable enough and the compilers re-load the value enough for this code to work. But it's wrong. The whole struct fpu *prev_fpu = &prev->fpu; thing in __switch_to() is pretty ugly. There's no reason why we should look at that 'prev_fpu' pointer there, or pass it down. And it only generates worse code, in how it loads 'current' when __switch_to() has the right task pointers. The attached patch not only cleans this up, it actually generates better code too: (a) it removes one push/pop pair at entry/exit because there's one less register used (no 'current') (b) it removes that pointless load of 'current' because it just uses the right argument: - movq %gs:pcpu_hot(%rip), %r12 - testq $16384, (%r12) + testq $16384, (%rdi) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231018184227.446318-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
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