[PATCH 1/5] x86/entry: Remove _TIF_NOHZ from _TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY

[Frederic Weisbecker]

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Evaluating _TIF_NOHZ to decide whether to use the slow syscall entry path
is not only pointless, it's actually counterproductive:

 1) Context tracking code is invoked unconditionally before that flag is
    evaluated.

 2) If the flag is set the slow path is invoked for nothing due to #1

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
index cf4327986e98..6cb9d1b0d1e6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -133,14 +133,10 @@ struct thread_info {
 #define _TIF_X32		(1 << TIF_X32)
 #define _TIF_FSCHECK		(1 << TIF_FSCHECK)
 
-/*
- * work to do in syscall_trace_enter().  Also includes TIF_NOHZ for
- * enter_from_user_mode()
- */
+/* Work to do before invoking the actual syscall. */
 #define _TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY	\
 	(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU | _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT |	\
-	 _TIF_SECCOMP | _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT |	\
-	 _TIF_NOHZ)
+	 _TIF_SECCOMP | _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT)
 
 /* flags to check in __switch_to() */
 #define _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_BASE					\
-- 
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