x86, xsave: context switch support using xsave/xrstor
authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:29:20 +0000 (10:29 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:49:24 +0000 (19:49 +0200)
Uses xsave/xrstor (instead of traditional fxsave/fxrstor) in context switch
when available.

Introduces TS_XSAVE flag, which determine the need to use xsave/xrstor
instructions during context switch instead of the legacy fxsave/fxrstor
instructions. Thread-synchronous status word is already in L1 cache during
this code patch and thus minimizes the performance penality compared to
(cpu_has_xsave) checks.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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