[PATCH v4 4.4 3/4] x86/fpu: Remove struct fpu::counter

[Daniel Sangorrin]

From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3913cc3507575273beb165a5e027a081913ed507 upstream.

With the lazy FPU code gone, we no longer use the counter field
in struct fpu for anything. Get rid it.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475627678-20788-6-git-send-email-riel@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sangorrin <daniel.sangorrin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h |  3 ---
 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h    | 11 -----------
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c          |  3 ---
 3 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
index 2ff03cc..16825dd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
@@ -575,15 +575,12 @@ switch_fpu_prepare(struct fpu *old_fpu, struct fpu *new_fpu, int cpu)
 
 		/* Don't change CR0.TS if we just switch! */
 		if (fpu.preload) {
-			new_fpu->counter++;
 			__fpregs_activate(new_fpu);
 			prefetch(&new_fpu->state);
 		}
 	} else {
-		old_fpu->counter = 0;
 		old_fpu->last_cpu = -1;
 		if (fpu.preload) {
-			new_fpu->counter++;
 			if (fpu_want_lazy_restore(new_fpu, cpu))
 				fpu.preload = 0;
 			else
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
index 1c6f6ac..dcb85a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
@@ -303,17 +303,6 @@ struct fpu {
 	unsigned char			fpregs_active;
 
 	/*
-	 * @counter:
-	 *
-	 * This counter contains the number of consecutive context switches
-	 * during which the FPU stays used. If this is over a threshold, the
-	 * lazy FPU restore logic becomes eager, to save the trap overhead.
-	 * This is an unsigned char so that after 256 iterations the counter
-	 * wraps and the context switch behavior turns lazy again; this is to
-	 * deal with bursty apps that only use the FPU for a short time:
-	 */
-	unsigned char			counter;
-	/*
 	 * @state:
 	 *
 	 * In-memory copy of all FPU registers that we save/restore
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index b282364..b322325 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -250,7 +250,6 @@ static void fpu_copy(struct fpu *dst_fpu, struct fpu *src_fpu)
 
 int fpu__copy(struct fpu *dst_fpu, struct fpu *src_fpu)
 {
-	dst_fpu->counter = 0;
 	dst_fpu->fpregs_active = 0;
 	dst_fpu->last_cpu = -1;
 
@@ -353,7 +352,6 @@ void fpu__restore(struct fpu *fpu)
 	kernel_fpu_disable();
 	fpregs_activate(fpu);
 	copy_kernel_to_fpregs(&fpu->state);
-	fpu->counter++;
 	kernel_fpu_enable();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fpu__restore);
@@ -370,7 +368,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fpu__restore);
 void fpu__drop(struct fpu *fpu)
 {
 	preempt_disable();
-	fpu->counter = 0;
 
 	if (fpu->fpregs_active) {
 		/* Ignore delayed exceptions from user space */
-- 
2.7.4