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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-15 13:15:53 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-16 13:20:31 (GMT)
commit6dbde3530850d4d8bfc1b6bd4006d92786a2787f (patch)
tree08c6dd55e860827311b889e2ecfe3de9f51421a0 /arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
parent004aa322f855a765741d9437a98dd8fe2e4f32a6 (diff)
downloadlinux-6dbde3530850d4d8bfc1b6bd4006d92786a2787f.tar.xz
percpu: add optimized generic percpu accessors
It is an optimization and a cleanup, and adds the following new generic percpu methods: percpu_read() percpu_write() percpu_add() percpu_sub() percpu_and() percpu_or() percpu_xor() and implements support for them on x86. (other architectures will fall back to a default implementation) The advantage is that for example to read a local percpu variable, instead of this sequence: return __get_cpu_var(var); ffffffff8102ca2b: 48 8b 14 fd 80 09 74 mov -0x7e8bf680(,%rdi,8),%rdx ffffffff8102ca32: 81 ffffffff8102ca33: 48 c7 c0 d8 59 00 00 mov $0x59d8,%rax ffffffff8102ca3a: 48 8b 04 10 mov (%rax,%rdx,1),%rax We can get a single instruction by using the optimized variants: return percpu_read(var); ffffffff8102ca3f: 65 48 8b 05 91 8f fd mov %gs:0x7efd8f91(%rip),%rax I also cleaned up the x86-specific APIs and made the x86 code use these new generic percpu primitives. tj: * fixed generic percpu_sub() definition as Roel Kluin pointed out * added percpu_and() for completeness's sake * made generic percpu ops atomic against preemption Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
index a546f55..77d5468 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
if (prev->gs | next->gs)
loadsegment(gs, next->gs);
- x86_write_percpu(current_task, next_p);
+ percpu_write(current_task, next_p);
return prev_p;
}