x86/entry, sched/x86: Don't save/restore EFLAGS on task switch
authorBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Thu, 5 May 2016 02:44:36 +0000 (22:44 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 5 May 2016 06:37:30 +0000 (08:37 +0200)
commit092c74e420952c7cb68141731f2b562245b51eeb
treec4c234dfa72513512a503c7f3e4486d78a00e16f
parent1fb48f8e54e5ed4d3d8599ba7e83f1f60530c81c
x86/entry, sched/x86: Don't save/restore EFLAGS on task switch

Now that NT is filtered by the SYSENTER entry code, it is safe to skip saving and
restoring flags on task switch.  Also remove a leftover reset of flags on 64-bit
fork.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462416278-11974-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h