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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2013-08-14 14:51:00 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-09-25 14:07:57 +0200
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sched, x86: Provide a per-cpu preempt_count implementation
Convert x86 to use a per-cpu preemption count. The reason for doing so is that accessing per-cpu variables is a lot cheaper than accessing thread_info variables. We still need to save/restore the actual preemption count due to PREEMPT_ACTIVE so we place the per-cpu __preempt_count variable in the same cache-line as the other hot __switch_to() variables such as current_task. NOTE: this save/restore is required even for !PREEMPT kernels as cond_resched() also relies on preempt_count's PREEMPT_ACTIVE to ignore task_struct::state. Also rename thread_info::preempt_count to ensure nobody is 'accidentally' still poking at it. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gzn5rfsf8trgjoqx8hyayy3q@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 2793d1f095a2..5223fe6dec7b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1095,6 +1095,9 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(char *, irq_stack_ptr) =
DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, irq_count) __visible = -1;
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, __preempt_count) = INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT;
+EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(__preempt_count);
+
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, fpu_owner_task);
/*
@@ -1169,6 +1172,8 @@ void debug_stack_reset(void)
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, current_task) = &init_task;
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(current_task);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, __preempt_count) = INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT;
+EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(__preempt_count);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, fpu_owner_task);
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR