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x86/entry: Add TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD

Add TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD. This flag is used for loading the FPU registers
before returning to userland. It must not be set on systems without a
FPU.

If this flag is cleared, the CPU's FPU registers hold the latest,
up-to-date content of the current task's (current()) FPU registers.
The in-memory copy (union fpregs_state) is not valid.

If this flag is set, then all of CPU's FPU registers may hold a random
value (except for PKRU) and it is required to load the content of the
FPU registers on return to userland.

Introduce it now as a preparatory change before adding the main feature.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190403164156.19645-17-bigeasy@linutronix.de

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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior and committed by
Borislav Petkov
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arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
··· 508 508 * - switch_fpu_finish() restores the new state as 509 509 * necessary. 510 510 * 511 + * If TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD is cleared then the CPU's FPU registers 512 + * are saved in the current thread's FPU register state. 513 + * 514 + * If TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD is set then CPU's FPU registers may not 515 + * hold current()'s FPU registers. It is required to load the 516 + * registers before returning to userland or using the content 517 + * otherwise. 518 + * 511 519 * The FPU context is only stored/restored for a user task and 512 520 * ->mm is used to distinguish between kernel and user threads. 513 521 */
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arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
··· 88 88 #define TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY 11 /* notify kernel of userspace return */ 89 89 #define TIF_UPROBE 12 /* breakpointed or singlestepping */ 90 90 #define TIF_PATCH_PENDING 13 /* pending live patching update */ 91 + #define TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD 14 /* load FPU on return to userspace */ 91 92 #define TIF_NOCPUID 15 /* CPUID is not accessible in userland */ 92 93 #define TIF_NOTSC 16 /* TSC is not accessible in userland */ 93 94 #define TIF_IA32 17 /* IA32 compatibility process */ ··· 118 117 #define _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY (1 << TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY) 119 118 #define _TIF_UPROBE (1 << TIF_UPROBE) 120 119 #define _TIF_PATCH_PENDING (1 << TIF_PATCH_PENDING) 120 + #define _TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD (1 << TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD) 121 121 #define _TIF_NOCPUID (1 << TIF_NOCPUID) 122 122 #define _TIF_NOTSC (1 << TIF_NOTSC) 123 123 #define _TIF_IA32 (1 << TIF_IA32)