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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2007-05-02 19:27:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2007-05-02 19:27:16 +0200 |
| commit | 7c3576d261ce046789a7db14f43303f8120910c7 (patch) | |
| tree | ad27a8459bbcdb183fe2411aec3b840942992ad5 /arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.c | |
| parent | 7a61d35d4b4056e7711031202da7605e052f4137 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] i386: Convert PDA into the percpu section
Currently x86 (similar to x84-64) has a special per-cpu structure
called "i386_pda" which can be easily and efficiently referenced via
the %fs register. An ELF section is more flexible than a structure,
allowing any piece of code to use this area. Indeed, such a section
already exists: the per-cpu area.
So this patch:
(1) Removes the PDA and uses per-cpu variables for each current member.
(2) Replaces the __KERNEL_PDA segment with __KERNEL_PERCPU.
(3) Creates a per-cpu mirror of __per_cpu_offset called this_cpu_off, which
can be used to calculate addresses for this CPU's variables.
(4) Simplifies startup, because %fs doesn't need to be loaded with a
special segment at early boot; it can be deferred until the first
percpu area is allocated (or never for UP).
The result is less code and one less x86-specific concept.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.c index d558adfc293c..b05e85fd1c1e 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.c @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ #include <asm/processor.h> #include <asm/thread_info.h> #include <asm/elf.h> -#include <asm/pda.h> #define DEFINE(sym, val) \ asm volatile("\n->" #sym " %0 " #val : : "i" (val)) @@ -101,10 +100,6 @@ void foo(void) OFFSET(crypto_tfm_ctx_offset, crypto_tfm, __crt_ctx); - BLANK(); - OFFSET(PDA_cpu, i386_pda, cpu_number); - OFFSET(PDA_pcurrent, i386_pda, pcurrent); - #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT BLANK(); OFFSET(PARAVIRT_enabled, paravirt_ops, paravirt_enabled); |