[PATCH 5/5] x86, FPU: Use static_cpu_has_safe before alternatives

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Jun 09 2013 - 06:08:43 EST


From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

The call stack below shows how this happens: basically eager_fpu_init()
calls __thread_fpu_begin(current) which then does if (!use_eager_fpu()),
which, in turn, uses static_cpu_has.

And we're executing before alternatives so static_cpu_has doesn't work
there yet.

Use the safe variant in this path which becomes optimal after
alternatives have run.

WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:1368 warn_pre_alternatives+0x1e/0x20()
You're using static_cpu_has before alternatives have run!
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.9.0-rc8+ #1
Call Trace:
warn_slowpath_common
warn_slowpath_fmt
? fpu_finit
warn_pre_alternatives
eager_fpu_init
fpu_init
cpu_init
trap_init
start_kernel
? repair_env_string
x86_64_start_reservations
x86_64_start_kernel

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
---
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 e25cc33ec54d..b36f31b18664 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static inline void __thread_fpu_end(struct task_struct *tsk)

static inline void __thread_fpu_begin(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
- if (!use_eager_fpu())
+ if (!static_cpu_has_safe(X86_FEATURE_EAGER_FPU))
clts();
__thread_set_has_fpu(tsk);
}
--
1.8.3

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