Re: [patch 1/3] x86/process: Optimize TIF checks in switch_to_extra()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 04:44:02PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>  void __switch_to_xtra(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p,
>  		      struct tss_struct *tss)
>  {
>  	struct thread_struct *prev, *next;
> +	unsigned long tifp, tifn;
>  
>  	prev = &prev_p->thread;
>  	next = &next_p->thread;
>  
> +	tifn = task_thread_info(next_p)->flags;
> +	tifp = task_thread_info(prev_p)->flags;
> +	switch_to_bitmap(tss, prev, next, tifp, tifn);
> +
> +	propagate_user_return_notify(prev_p, next_p);
> +
> +	if ((tifp ^ tifn) & _TIF_BLOCKSTEP) {
>  		unsigned long debugctl = get_debugctlmsr();
>  
>  		debugctl &= ~DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF;
> +		if (tifn & _TIF_BLOCKSTEP)
>  			debugctl |= DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF;
>  		update_debugctlmsr(debugctl);
>  	}

Going by the toggle patter you have elsewhere, wouldn't that then be:

	if ((tifp ^ tifn) & _TIF_BLOCKSTEP) {
		unsigned long debugctl = get_debugctlmsr();

		debugctl ^= DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF;
		update_debugctlmsr(debugctl);
	}

?