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authorJanet Liu <janet.liu@spreadtrum.com>2015-06-11 12:04:32 +0800
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2015-06-11 15:35:23 +0100
commit6eb6c80187c55b7f95683bc6502dccac54b95b92 (patch)
treec6346a9942633d97031f6edfc0a04bb315a8e95b
parent04d7e098f541769721d7511d56aea4b976fd29fd (diff)
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arm64: kernel thread don't need to save fpsimd context.
kernel thread's default fpsimd state is zero. When fork a thread, if parent is kernel thread, and save hardware context to parent's fpsimd state, but this hardware context is user process's context, because kernel thread don't use fpsimd, it will not introduce issue, it add a little cost. Signed-off-by: Janet Liu <janet.liu@spreadtrum.com> Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/process.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index 369f485f4b71..223b093c9440 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -233,7 +233,8 @@ void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task)
int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
{
- fpsimd_preserve_current_state();
+ if (current->mm)
+ fpsimd_preserve_current_state();
*dst = *src;
return 0;
}
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