[PATCH] powerpc: Remove lppaca structure from the PACA

At present the lppaca - the structure shared with the iSeries
hypervisor and phyp - is contained within the PACA, our own low-level
per-cpu structure.  This doesn't have to be so, the patch below
removes it, making a separate array of lppaca structures.

This saves approximately 500*NR_CPUS bytes of image size and kernel
memory, because we don't need aligning gap between the Linux and
hypervisor portions of every PACA.  On the other hand it means an
extra level of dereference in many accesses to the lppaca.

The patch also gets rid of several places where we assign the paca
address to a local variable for no particular reason.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/paca.h b/include/asm-powerpc/paca.h
index a64b4d4..c9add8f 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/paca.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/paca.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 register struct paca_struct *local_paca asm("r13");
 #define get_paca()	local_paca
+#define get_lppaca()	(get_paca()->lppaca_ptr)
 
 struct task_struct;
 
@@ -95,19 +96,6 @@ struct paca_struct {
 	u64 saved_r1;			/* r1 save for RTAS calls */
 	u64 saved_msr;			/* MSR saved here by enter_rtas */
 	u8 proc_enabled;		/* irq soft-enable flag */
-
-	/*
-	 * iSeries structure which the hypervisor knows about -
-	 * this structure should not cross a page boundary.
-	 * The vpa_init/register_vpa call is now known to fail if the
-	 * lppaca structure crosses a page boundary.
-	 * The lppaca is also used on POWER5 pSeries boxes.
-	 * The lppaca is 640 bytes long, and cannot readily change
-	 * since the hypervisor knows its layout, so a 1kB
-	 * alignment will suffice to ensure that it doesn't
-	 * cross a page boundary.
-	 */
-	struct lppaca lppaca __attribute__((__aligned__(0x400)));
 };
 
 extern struct paca_struct paca[];