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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>2006-07-10 03:12:39 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-07-10 03:47:12 +0200
commitb3cf257623fabd8f1ee6700a6d328cc1c5da5a1d (patch)
tree28b98f21dd108864d2edc11d179cb48c118b2cf8 /arch/i386/kernel/process.c
parentMerge commit master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 of HEAD (diff)
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[PATCH] i386: use thread_info flags for debug regs and IO bitmaps
Use thread info flags to track use of debug registers and IO bitmaps. - add TIF_DEBUG to track when debug registers are active - add TIF_IO_BITMAP to track when I/O bitmap is used - modify __switch_to() to use the new TIF flags Performance tested on Pentium II, ten runs of LMbench context switch benchmark (smaller is better:) before after avg 3.65 3.39 min 3.55 3.33 Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/process.c50
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
index 94e2c87edeaa..923bb292f47f 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
@@ -359,16 +359,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread);
*/
void exit_thread(void)
{
- struct task_struct *tsk = current;
- struct thread_struct *t = &tsk->thread;
-
/* The process may have allocated an io port bitmap... nuke it. */
- if (unlikely(NULL != t->io_bitmap_ptr)) {
+ if (unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_IO_BITMAP))) {
+ struct task_struct *tsk = current;
+ struct thread_struct *t = &tsk->thread;
int cpu = get_cpu();
struct tss_struct *tss = &per_cpu(init_tss, cpu);
kfree(t->io_bitmap_ptr);
t->io_bitmap_ptr = NULL;
+ clear_thread_flag(TIF_IO_BITMAP);
/*
* Careful, clear this in the TSS too:
*/
@@ -387,6 +387,7 @@ void flush_thread(void)
memset(tsk->thread.debugreg, 0, sizeof(unsigned long)*8);
memset(tsk->thread.tls_array, 0, sizeof(tsk->thread.tls_array));
+ clear_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_DEBUG);
/*
* Forget coprocessor state..
*/
@@ -431,7 +432,7 @@ int copy_thread(int nr, unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long esp,
savesegment(gs,p->thread.gs);
tsk = current;
- if (unlikely(NULL != tsk->thread.io_bitmap_ptr)) {
+ if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_IO_BITMAP))) {
p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = kmalloc(IO_BITMAP_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr) {
p->thread.io_bitmap_max = 0;
@@ -439,6 +440,7 @@ int copy_thread(int nr, unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long esp,
}
memcpy(p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr, tsk->thread.io_bitmap_ptr,
IO_BITMAP_BYTES);
+ set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_IO_BITMAP);
}
/*
@@ -533,10 +535,24 @@ int dump_task_regs(struct task_struct *tsk, elf_gregset_t *regs)
return 1;
}
-static inline void
-handle_io_bitmap(struct thread_struct *next, struct tss_struct *tss)
+static noinline void __switch_to_xtra(struct task_struct *next_p,
+ struct tss_struct *tss)
{
- if (!next->io_bitmap_ptr) {
+ struct thread_struct *next;
+
+ next = &next_p->thread;
+
+ if (test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_DEBUG)) {
+ set_debugreg(next->debugreg[0], 0);
+ set_debugreg(next->debugreg[1], 1);
+ set_debugreg(next->debugreg[2], 2);
+ set_debugreg(next->debugreg[3], 3);
+ /* no 4 and 5 */
+ set_debugreg(next->debugreg[6], 6);
+ set_debugreg(next->debugreg[7], 7);
+ }
+
+ if (!test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_IO_BITMAP)) {
/*
* Disable the bitmap via an invalid offset. We still cache
* the previous bitmap owner and the IO bitmap contents:
@@ -544,6 +560,7 @@ handle_io_bitmap(struct thread_struct *next, struct tss_struct *tss)
tss->io_bitmap_base = INVALID_IO_BITMAP_OFFSET;
return;
}
+
if (likely(next == tss->io_bitmap_owner)) {
/*
* Previous owner of the bitmap (hence the bitmap content)
@@ -671,20 +688,11 @@ struct task_struct fastcall * __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct tas
set_iopl_mask(next->iopl);
/*
- * Now maybe reload the debug registers
+ * Now maybe handle debug registers and/or IO bitmaps
*/
- if (unlikely(next->debugreg[7])) {
- set_debugreg(next->debugreg[0], 0);
- set_debugreg(next->debugreg[1], 1);
- set_debugreg(next->debugreg[2], 2);
- set_debugreg(next->debugreg[3], 3);
- /* no 4 and 5 */
- set_debugreg(next->debugreg[6], 6);
- set_debugreg(next->debugreg[7], 7);
- }
-
- if (unlikely(prev->io_bitmap_ptr || next->io_bitmap_ptr))
- handle_io_bitmap(next, tss);
+ if (unlikely((task_thread_info(next_p)->flags & _TIF_WORK_CTXSW))
+ || test_tsk_thread_flag(prev_p, TIF_IO_BITMAP))
+ __switch_to_xtra(next_p, tss);
disable_tsc(prev_p, next_p);