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nitial executable's ELF header. In order to avoid overhead in the general FP context restore code, it aimed to have threads in the process become unable to enable the FPU during a mode switch & have the thread calling the prctl syscall wait for all other threads in the process to be context switched at least once. Once that happens we can know that no thread in the process whose mode will be switched has live FP context, and it's safe to perform the mode switch. However in the (rare) case of modeswitches occurring in multithreaded programs this can lead to indeterminate delays for the thread invoking the prctl syscall, and the code monitoring for those context switches was woefully inadequate for all but the simplest cases. Fix this by broadcasting an IPI if other CPUs may have live FP context for an affected thread, with a handler causing those CPUs to relinquish their FPU ownership. Threads will then be allowed to continue running but will stall on the wait_on_atomic_t in enable_restore_fp_context if they attempt to use FP again whilst the mode switch is still in progress. The end result is less fragile poking at scheduler context switch counts & a more expedient completion of the mode switch. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Fixes: 9791554b45a2 ("MIPS,prctl: add PR_[GS]ET_FP_MODE prctl options for MIPS") Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com> Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.0+ Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13145/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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