x86/process: Correct and optimize TIF_BLOCKSTEP switch
authorKyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:11:03 +0000 (00:11 -0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:45:18 +0000 (12:45 +0100)
commitb9894a2f5bd18b1691cb6872c9afe32b148d0132
treef5a0ae5d0bbad932b551bc504da25ef0b7614028
parentaf8b3cd3934ec60f4c2a420d19a9d416554f140b
x86/process: Correct and optimize TIF_BLOCKSTEP switch

The debug control MSR is "highly magical" as the blockstep bit can be
cleared by hardware under not well documented circumstances.

So a task switch relying on the bit set by the previous task (according to
the previous tasks thread flags) can trip over this and not update the flag
for the next task.

To fix this its required to handle DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF when either the previous
or the next or both tasks have the TIF_BLOCKSTEP flag set.

While at it avoid branching within the TIF_BLOCKSTEP case and evaluating
boot_cpu_data twice in kernels without CONFIG_X86_DEBUGCTLMSR.

x86_64: arch/x86/kernel/process.o
text data bss dec  hex
3024    8577    16      11617    2d61 Before
3008 8577 16 11601  2d51 After

i386: No change

[ tglx: Made the shift value explicit, use a local variable to make the
code readable and massaged changelog]

Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle Huey <khuey@kylehuey.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170214081104.9244-3-khuey@kylehuey.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
arch/x86/kernel/process.c