* Dave Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/05/2015 10:58 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * This is our most modern FPU state format, as saved by the XSAVE
> > + * and restored by the XRSTOR instructions.
> > + *
> > + * It consists of a legacy fxregs portion, an xstate header and
> > + * subsequent fixed size areas as defined by the xstate header.
> > + * Not all CPUs support all the extensions.
> > + */
> > struct xregs_state {
> > struct fxregs_state i387;
> > struct xstate_header header;
> > @@ -150,6 +169,13 @@ struct xregs_state {
> > /* New processor state extensions will go here. */
> > } __attribute__ ((packed, aligned (64)));
>
> Fenghua has a "fix" for this, but I think this misses a pretty big point.
>
> This structure includes only the "legacy" state, followed by the header.
> The remainder of the layout here is enumerated in CPUID leaves and can
> not be laid out in a structure because we do not know what it looks like
> until we run CPUID.
>
> There is logically a variable length array at the end of this
> sucker.
Yes, exactly, that is where we want to go, and this direction is what
I tried to cover with this bit of the series:
struct xregs_state {
struct fxregs_state i387;
struct xstate_header header;
u8 __reserved[XSTATE_RESERVE];
} __attribute__ ((packed, aligned (64)));
Note how it's now opaque after the xstate header, because there's no
guarantee of what's in that area.
The only 'fixed' aspect of the xstates is the feature bit enumeration:
enum xfeature_bit {
XSTATE_BIT_FP,
XSTATE_BIT_SSE,
XSTATE_BIT_YMM,
XSTATE_BIT_BNDREGS,
XSTATE_BIT_BNDCSR,
XSTATE_BIT_OPMASK,
XSTATE_BIT_ZMM_Hi256,
XSTATE_BIT_Hi16_ZMM,
XFEATURES_NR_MAX,
Plus with point #4 of the announcement I wanted to signal that I think
we should allocate the variable part dynamically:
4)
task->thread.fpu->state got embedded again, as
task->thread.fpu.state. This eliminated a lot of awkward late
dynamic memory allocation of FPU state and the problematic handling
of failures.
Note that while the allocation is static right now, this is a WIP
interim state: we can still do dynamic allocation of FPU state, by
moving the FPU state last in task_struct and then allocating
task_struct accordingly.
I.e. we can put the variable size state array at the end of
task_struct, make task_struct size per boot variable and still have
essentially a single static allocation for all fundamental task state.
But I first wanted to see people test this series - it's ambitious
enough as-is already!
Thanks,
Ingo
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