Commit-ID:  07d495dae20717b00881798ef812f7aa53ca0eb3
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/07d495dae20717b00881798ef812f7aa53ca0eb3
Author:     Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovm...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:50:57 +0600
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 09:36:59 +0100

x86/traps: Get rid of unnecessary preempt_disable/preempt_enable_no_resched

Exception handlers which may run on IST stack call ist_enter() at the start
of execution and ist_exit() in the end. ist_enter() disables preemption
unconditionally and ist_exit() enables it.

So the extra preempt_disable/enable() pairs nested inside the
ist_enter/exit() regions are pointless and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovm...@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>
Cc: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4...@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161128075057.7724-1-kuleshovm...@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index bf0c6d0..1dc86ee 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -563,11 +563,9 @@ dotraplinkage void notrace do_int3(struct pt_regs *regs, 
long error_code)
         * as we may switch to the interrupt stack.
         */
        debug_stack_usage_inc();
-       preempt_disable();
        cond_local_irq_enable(regs);
        do_trap(X86_TRAP_BP, SIGTRAP, "int3", regs, error_code, NULL);
        cond_local_irq_disable(regs);
-       preempt_enable_no_resched();
        debug_stack_usage_dec();
 exit:
        ist_exit(regs);
@@ -742,14 +740,12 @@ dotraplinkage void do_debug(struct pt_regs *regs, long 
error_code)
        debug_stack_usage_inc();
 
        /* It's safe to allow irq's after DR6 has been saved */
-       preempt_disable();
        cond_local_irq_enable(regs);
 
        if (v8086_mode(regs)) {
                handle_vm86_trap((struct kernel_vm86_regs *) regs, error_code,
                                        X86_TRAP_DB);
                cond_local_irq_disable(regs);
-               preempt_enable_no_resched();
                debug_stack_usage_dec();
                goto exit;
        }
@@ -769,7 +765,6 @@ dotraplinkage void do_debug(struct pt_regs *regs, long 
error_code)
        if (tsk->thread.debugreg6 & (DR_STEP | DR_TRAP_BITS) || user_icebp)
                send_sigtrap(tsk, regs, error_code, si_code);
        cond_local_irq_disable(regs);
-       preempt_enable_no_resched();
        debug_stack_usage_dec();
 
 exit:

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