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With the new FSGSBASE instructions, FS and GSABSE can be efficiently read and writen in __switch_to(). Use that capability to preserve the full state. This will enable user code to do whatever it wants with the new instructions without any kernel-induced gotchas. (There can still be architectural gotchas: movl %gs,%eax; movl %eax,%gs may change GSBASE if WRGSBASE was used, but users are expected to read the CPU manual before doing things like that.) This is a considerable speedup. It seems to save about 100 cycles per context switch compared to the baseline 4.6-rc1 behavior on a Skylake laptop. This is mostly due to avoiding the WRMSR operation. [ chang: 5~10% performance improvements were seen with a context switch benchmark that ran threads with different FS/GSBASE values (to the baseline 4.16). Minor edit on the changelog. ] [ tglx: Masaage changelog ] Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-8-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200528201402.1708239-6-sashal@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.