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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-08-03 14:08:48 +0900 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2009-08-04 01:28:52 +0900 |
| commit | ed8d9adf357ec331603fa1049510399812cea7e5 (patch) | |
| tree | cc6eae948bf4652b9d87aee796ae78cc6287ac36 /arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h | |
| parent | a33a052f19a21d727847391c8c1aff3fb221c472 (diff) | |
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.h | 26 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h index 103f1ddb0d8..04eacefcfd2 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) |