Re: Lazy FPU restoration / moving kernel_fpu_end() to context switch

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 8:32 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> quite in the form you imagined.  The idea that we've tossed around is
> to restore FPU state on return to user mode.  Roughly, we'd introduce
> a new thread flag TIF_FPU_UNLOADED (name TBD).
> prepare_exit_to_usermode() would notice this flag, copy the fpstate to
> fpregs, and clear the flag.  (Or maybe exit_to_usermode_loop() -- No
> one has quite thought it through, but I think it should be outside the
> loop.)  We'd update all the FPU accessors to understand the flag.

Yes! This is exactly what I was thinking. Then those calls to begin()
and end() could be placed as close to the actual FPU usage as
possible.