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core, x86: Add user return notifiers

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Add a general per-cpu notifier that is called whenever the kernel is
about to return to userspace.  The notifier uses a thread_info flag
and existing checks, so there is no impact on user return or context
switch fast paths.

This will be used initially to speed up KVM task switching by lazily
updating MSRs.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253342422-13811-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Avi Kivity
2009-09-19 09:40:22 +03:00
committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent 817b33d38f
commit 7c68af6e32
7 changed files with 109 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/process.c
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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/pm.h>
#include <linux/clockchips.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/user-return-notifier.h>
#include <trace/events/power.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
#include <asm/apic.h>
@@ -224,6 +225,7 @@ void __switch_to_xtra(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p,
*/
memset(tss->io_bitmap, 0xff, prev->io_bitmap_max);
}
propagate_user_return_notify(prev_p, next_p);
}
int sys_fork(struct pt_regs *regs)