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x86/fpu: Change fpu->fpregs_active from 'int' to 'char', add lazy switching comments
Improve the memory layout of 'struct fpu':
- change ->fpregs_active from 'int' to 'char' - it's just a single flag
and modern x86 CPUs can do efficient byte accesses.
- pack related fields closer to each other: often 'fpu->state' will not be
touched, while the other fields will - so pack them into a group.
Also add comments to each field, describing their purpose, and add
some background information about lazy restores.
Also fix an obsolete, lazy switching related comment in fpu_copy()'s description.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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>