Only allocate the FPU area when the application actually uses FPU, i.e., in the
first lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---
v4: Handles the kmem_cache_alloc() failures.
v3: Fixed the non-atomic calling sequence in atomic context.
v2: Ported to x86.git#testing with some name changes.
---
Index: linux-2.6-x86/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-x86.orig/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c 2008-03-04 15:31:56.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6-x86/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c 2008-03-04 15:31:57.000000000 -0800
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/regset.h>
-#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/i387.h>
#include <asm/math_emu.h>
@@ -67,7 +66,6 @@
else
xstate_size = sizeof(struct i387_fsave_struct);
#endif
- init_task.thread.xstate = alloc_bootmem(xstate_size);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
@@ -97,12 +95,22 @@
* value at reset if we support XMM instructions and then
* remeber the current task has used the FPU.
*/
-void init_fpu(struct task_struct *tsk)
+int init_fpu(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
if (tsk_used_math(tsk)) {
if (tsk == current)
unlazy_fpu(tsk);
- return;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Memory allocation at the first usage of the FPU and other state.
+ */
+ if (!tsk->thread.xstate) {
+ tsk->thread.xstate = kmem_cache_alloc(task_xstate_cachep,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!tsk->thread.xstate)
+ return -ENOMEM;
}
if (cpu_has_fxsr) {
@@ -124,6 +132,7 @@
* Only the device not available exception or ptrace can call init_fpu.
*/
set_stopped_child_used_math(tsk);
+ return 0;
}
int fpregs_active(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset)
@@ -140,10 +149,14 @@
unsigned int pos, unsigned int count,
void *kbuf, void __user ...
