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    x86/io: Speedup schedule out of I/O bitmap user · ecc7e37d
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    
    
    There is no requirement to update the TSS I/O bitmap when a thread using it is
    scheduled out and the incoming thread does not use it.
    
    For the permission check based on the TSS I/O bitmap the CPU calculates the memory
    location of the I/O bitmap by the address of the TSS and the io_bitmap_base member
    of the tss_struct. The easiest way to invalidate the I/O bitmap is to switch the
    offset to an address outside of the TSS limit.
    
    If an I/O instruction is issued from user space the TSS limit causes #GP to be
    raised in the same was as valid I/O bitmap with all bits set to 1 would do.
    
    This removes the extra work when an I/O bitmap using task is scheduled out
    and puts the burden on the rare I/O bitmap users when they are scheduled
    in.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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