x86/fpu: Fix fpu__activate_fpstate_read() and update comments

fpu__activate_fpstate_read() can be called for the current task
when coredumping - or for stopped tasks when ptrace-ing.

Implement this properly in the code and update the comments.

This also fixes an incorrect (but harmless) warning introduced by
one of the earlier patches.

Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index 93103a909c471d870fdb2db385338e7498c341a2..afd3f2a5c64e908d8dc2adcafb2cc66de39db52f 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -254,18 +254,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fpu__activate_curr);
 /*
  * This function must be called before we read a task's fpstate.
  *
- * If the task has not used the FPU before then initialize its
- * fpstate.
+ * There's two cases where this gets called:
+ *
+ * - for the current task (when coredumping), in which case we have
+ *   to save the latest FPU registers into the fpstate,
+ *
+ * - or it's called for stopped tasks (ptrace), in which case the
+ *   registers were already saved by the context-switch code when
+ *   the task scheduled out - we only have to initialize the registers
+ *   if they've never been initialized.
  *
  * If the task has used the FPU before then save it.
  */
 void fpu__activate_fpstate_read(struct fpu *fpu)
 {
-       /*
-        * If fpregs are active (in the current CPU), then
-        * copy them to the fpstate:
-        */
-       if (fpu->fpstate_active) {
+       if (fpu == &current->thread.fpu) {
                fpu__save(fpu);
        } else {
                if (!fpu->fpstate_active) {