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authorBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>2016-08-13 18:38:19 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-08-24 12:31:41 +0200
commit0100301bfdf56a2a370c7157b5ab0fbf9313e1cd (patch)
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parentsched/x86: Add 'struct inactive_task_frame' to better document the sleeping t... (diff)
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sched/x86: Rewrite the switch_to() code
Move the low-level context switch code to an out-of-line asm stub instead of using complex inline asm. This allows constructing a new stack frame for the child process to make it seamlessly flow to ret_from_fork without an extra test and branch in __switch_to(). It also improves code generation for __schedule() by using the C calling convention instead of clobbering all registers. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471106302-10159-5-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 63236d8f84bf..827eeed03e16 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -141,12 +141,17 @@ int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
{
int err;
struct pt_regs *childregs;
+ struct fork_frame *fork_frame;
+ struct inactive_task_frame *frame;
struct task_struct *me = current;
p->thread.sp0 = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(p) + THREAD_SIZE;
childregs = task_pt_regs(p);
- p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) childregs;
- set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_FORK);
+ fork_frame = container_of(childregs, struct fork_frame, regs);
+ frame = &fork_frame->frame;
+ frame->bp = 0;
+ frame->ret_addr = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
+ p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) fork_frame;
p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = NULL;
savesegment(gs, p->thread.gsindex);