From: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> copy_xregs_to_kernel checks if the alternatives have been already patched.
This WARN_ON() is always executed in every context switch. All the other checks in fpu internal.h are WARN_ON_FPU(), but this one is plain WARN_ON(). I assume it was forgotten to switch it. So switch it to WARN_ON_FPU() too to avoid some unnecessary code in the context switch, and a potentially expensive cache line miss for the global variable. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170329062605.4970-1-a...@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h index 629e7abcd6c9..2dca7c65319c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ static inline void copy_xregs_to_kernel(struct xregs_state *xstate) u32 hmask = mask >> 32; int err; - WARN_ON(!alternatives_patched); + WARN_ON_FPU(!alternatives_patched); XSTATE_XSAVE(xstate, lmask, hmask, err); -- 2.11.0
