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| author | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-10-01 12:12:18 -0700 |
| commit | 7c68af6e32c73992bad24107311f3433c89016e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 9046ac5339f944e8ddccd34be226790b953dda61 /arch/x86/include/asm | |
| parent | 817b33d38f81c8736d39283c35c886ae4668f1af (diff) | |
core, x86: Add user return notifiers
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h index d27d0a2fec4..375c917c37d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ struct thread_info { #define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT 7 /* syscall auditing active */ #define TIF_SECCOMP 8 /* secure computing */ #define TIF_MCE_NOTIFY 10 /* notify userspace of an MCE */ +#define TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY 11 /* notify kernel of userspace return */ #define TIF_NOTSC 16 /* TSC is not accessible in userland */ #define TIF_IA32 17 /* 32bit process */ #define TIF_FORK 18 /* ret_from_fork */ @@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ struct thread_info { #define _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT (1 << TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT) #define _TIF_SECCOMP (1 << TIF_SECCOMP) #define _TIF_MCE_NOTIFY (1 << TIF_MCE_NOTIFY) +#define _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY (1 << TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY) #define _TIF_NOTSC (1 << TIF_NOTSC) #define _TIF_IA32 (1 << TIF_IA32) #define _TIF_FORK (1 << TIF_FORK) @@ -142,13 +144,14 @@ struct thread_info { /* Only used for 64 bit */ #define _TIF_DO_NOTIFY_MASK \ - (_TIF_SIGPENDING|_TIF_MCE_NOTIFY|_TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME) + (_TIF_SIGPENDING | _TIF_MCE_NOTIFY | _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME | \ + _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY) /* flags to check in __switch_to() */ #define _TIF_WORK_CTXSW \ (_TIF_IO_BITMAP|_TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR|_TIF_DS_AREA_MSR|_TIF_NOTSC) -#define _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_PREV _TIF_WORK_CTXSW +#define _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_PREV (_TIF_WORK_CTXSW|_TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY) #define _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_NEXT (_TIF_WORK_CTXSW|_TIF_DEBUG) #define PREEMPT_ACTIVE 0x10000000 |