From 6dbde3530850d4d8bfc1b6bd4006d92786a2787f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:15:53 +0900 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c index a546f55c77b..77d546817d9 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3