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sched/x86: Rewrite the switch_to() code

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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>
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Brian Gerst
2016-08-13 12:38:19 -04:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 7b32aeadbc
commit 0100301bfd
11 changed files with 125 additions and 132 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
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@@ -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);