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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2013-08-14 14:51:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-09-25 14:07:57 +0200 |
| commit | c2daa3bed53a81171cf8c1a36db798e82b91afe8 (patch) | |
| tree | a7a7b1676e3101b986276f9ec0eab0ab5183e1ed /arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | |
| parent | a233f1120c37724938f7201fe2353b2577adaaf9 (diff) | |
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/process_32.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c index 884f98f6935..c2ec1aa6d45 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c @@ -292,6 +292,14 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p) set_iopl_mask(next->iopl); /* + * If it were not for PREEMPT_ACTIVE we could guarantee that the + * preempt_count of all tasks was equal here and this would not be + * needed. + */ + task_thread_info(prev_p)->saved_preempt_count = this_cpu_read(__preempt_count); + this_cpu_write(__preempt_count, task_thread_info(next_p)->saved_preempt_count); + + /* * Now maybe handle debug registers and/or IO bitmaps */ if (unlikely(task_thread_info(prev_p)->flags & _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_PREV || |