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Commit 22fe5b04 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner
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x86/ioperm: Move TSS bitmap update to exit to user work



There is no point to update the TSS bitmap for tasks which use I/O bitmaps
on every context switch. It's enough to update it right before exiting to
user space.

That reduces the context switch bitmap handling to invalidating the io
bitmap base offset in the TSS when the outgoing task has TIF_IO_BITMAP
set. The invaldiation is done on purpose when a task with an IO bitmap
switches out to prevent any possible leakage of an activated IO bitmap.

It also removes the requirement to update the tasks bitmap atomically in
ioperm().

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 060aa16f
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