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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-08-03 07:08:48 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2009-08-03 18:28:52 +0200
commited8d9adf357ec331603fa1049510399812cea7e5 (patch)
treecc6eae948bf4652b9d87aee796ae78cc6287ac36 /arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
parentMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md (diff)
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x86, percpu: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accesses
This is very useful for some common things like 'get_current()' and 'get_thread_info()', which can be used multiple times in a function, and where the result is cacheable. tj: Added the magical undocumented "P" modifier to UP __percpu_arg() to force gcc to dereference the pointer value passed in via the "p" input constraint. Without this, percpu_read_stable() returns the address of the percpu variable. Also added comment explaining the difference between percpu_read() and percpu_read_stable(). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h26
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
index 103f1ddb0d85..04eacefcfd26 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
#define __percpu_arg(x) "%%"__stringify(__percpu_seg)":%P" #x
#define __my_cpu_offset percpu_read(this_cpu_off)
#else
-#define __percpu_arg(x) "%" #x
+#define __percpu_arg(x) "%P" #x
#endif
/*
@@ -104,36 +104,48 @@ do { \
} \
} while (0)
-#define percpu_from_op(op, var) \
+#define percpu_from_op(op, var, constraint) \
({ \
typeof(var) ret__; \
switch (sizeof(var)) { \
case 1: \
asm(op "b "__percpu_arg(1)",%0" \
: "=q" (ret__) \
- : "m" (var)); \
+ : constraint); \
break; \
case 2: \
asm(op "w "__percpu_arg(1)",%0" \
: "=r" (ret__) \
- : "m" (var)); \
+ : constraint); \
break; \
case 4: \
asm(op "l "__percpu_arg(1)",%0" \
: "=r" (ret__) \
- : "m" (var)); \
+ : constraint); \
break; \
case 8: \
asm(op "q "__percpu_arg(1)",%0" \
: "=r" (ret__) \
- : "m" (var)); \
+ : constraint); \
break; \
default: __bad_percpu_size(); \
} \
ret__; \
})
-#define percpu_read(var) percpu_from_op("mov", per_cpu__##var)
+/*
+ * percpu_read() makes gcc load the percpu variable every time it is
+ * accessed while percpu_read_stable() allows the value to be cached.
+ * percpu_read_stable() is more efficient and can be used if its value
+ * is guaranteed to be valid across cpus. The current users include
+ * get_current() and get_thread_info() both of which are actually
+ * per-thread variables implemented as per-cpu variables and thus
+ * stable for the duration of the respective task.
+ */
+#define percpu_read(var) percpu_from_op("mov", per_cpu__##var, \
+ "m" (per_cpu__##var))
+#define percpu_read_stable(var) percpu_from_op("mov", per_cpu__##var, \
+ "p" (&per_cpu__##var))
#define percpu_write(var, val) percpu_to_op("mov", per_cpu__##var, val)
#define percpu_add(var, val) percpu_to_op("add", per_cpu__##var, val)
#define percpu_sub(var, val) percpu_to_op("sub", per_cpu__##var, val)