x86: Allow FPU to be used at interrupt time even with eagerfpu
With the addition of eagerfpu the irq_fpu_usable() now returns false
negatives especially in the case of ksoftirqd and interrupted idle task,
two common cases for FPU use for example in networking/crypto. With
eagerfpu=off FPU use is possible in those contexts. This is because of
the eagerfpu check in interrupted_kernel_fpu_idle():
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* For now, with eagerfpu we will return interrupted kernel FPU
* state as not-idle. TBD: Ideally we can change the return value
* to something like __thread_has_fpu(current). But we need to
* be careful of doing __thread_clear_has_fpu() before saving
* the FPU etc for supporting nested uses etc. For now, take
* the simple route!
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if (use_eager_fpu())
return 0;
As eagerfpu is automatically "on" on those CPUs that also have the
features like AES-NI this patch changes the eagerfpu check to return 1 in
case the kernel_fpu_begin() has not been said yet. Once it has been the
__thread_has_fpu() will start returning 0.
Notice that with eagerfpu the __thread_has_fpu is always true initially.
FPU use is thus always possible no matter what task is under us, unless
the state has already been saved with kernel_fpu_begin().
[ hpa: this is a performance regression, not a correctness regression,
but since it can be quite serious on CPUs which need encryption at
interrupt time I am marking this for urgent/stable. ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@iki.fi>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.GSO.2.00.1305131356320.18@git.silcnet.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> v3.7+
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>