x86/fpu: Add debugging check to fpu_copy()

Also add a bit of documentation.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index 2cc2380..3aeab3f 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -203,8 +203,18 @@ void fpstate_free(struct fpu *fpu)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fpstate_free);
 
+/*
+ * Copy the current task's FPU state to a new task's FPU context.
+ *
+ * In the 'eager' case we just save to the destination context.
+ *
+ * In the 'lazy' case we save to the source context, mark the FPU lazy
+ * via stts() and copy the source context into the destination context.
+ */
 static void fpu_copy(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
 {
+       WARN_ON(src != current);
+
        if (use_eager_fpu()) {
                memset(&dst->thread.fpu.state->xsave, 0, xstate_size);
                __save_fpu(dst);