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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index 28610822fb3c..9f6b9341950f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ void common(void) {
 	OFFSET(TI_flags, thread_info, flags);
 	OFFSET(TI_status, thread_info, status);
 	OFFSET(TI_addr_limit, thread_info, addr_limit);
-	OFFSET(TI_preempt_count, thread_info, preempt_count);
 
 	BLANK();
 	OFFSET(crypto_tfm_ctx_offset, crypto_tfm, __crt_ctx);