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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/entry_64.S')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index 1b69951..6a43e7d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -1118,10 +1118,8 @@ retint_signal:
/* Returning to kernel space. Check if we need preemption */
/* rcx: threadinfo. interrupts off. */
ENTRY(retint_kernel)
- cmpl $0,TI_preempt_count(%rcx)
+ cmpl $0,PER_CPU_VAR(__preempt_count)
jnz retint_restore_args
- bt $TIF_NEED_RESCHED,TI_flags(%rcx)
- jnc retint_restore_args
bt $9,EFLAGS-ARGOFFSET(%rsp) /* interrupts off? */
jnc retint_restore_args
call preempt_schedule_irq
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