From c2daa3bed53a81171cf8c1a36db798e82b91afe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:51:00 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gzn5rfsf8trgjoqx8hyayy3q@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c') 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); -- cgit v1.2.3