Re: [RFC PATCH 05/11] x86,fpu: ensure FPU state is reloaded from memory if task is traced

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Tue Jan 13 2015 - 11:34:06 EST


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On 01/13/2015 11:19 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 01/11, riel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> @@ -412,8 +412,14 @@ static inline void switch_fpu_prepare(struct
>> task_struct *old, struct task_struc bool preload =
>> tsk_used_math(new) && (use_eager_fpu() || new->thread.fpu_counter
>> > 5); if (__thread_has_fpu(old)) { - if (!__save_init_fpu(old))
>> + /* + * Make sure the FPU state is restored from memory next
>> time, + * if the task has an FPU exception pending, or the
>> task's in + * memory FPU state could be changed by a debugger.
>> + */ + if (!__save_init_fpu(old) ||
>> task_is_stopped_or_traced(old)) cpu = ~0;
>
> Well, if debugger wants to change FPU state, it should call
> init_fpu() which resets .last_cpu ?

Does the ptrace (and utrace, and ... ) code actually do that?

> Plus "is_stopped" is not needed, ptracer no longer can do STOPPED
> -> TRACED transition.

I will remove _is_stopped.

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