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/irq_32.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c index 4186755f1d7c..3fe066359ac0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c @@ -100,9 +100,6 @@ execute_on_irq_stack(int overflow, struct irq_desc *desc, int irq) irqctx->tinfo.task = curctx->tinfo.task; irqctx->tinfo.previous_esp = current_stack_pointer; - /* Copy the preempt_count so that the [soft]irq checks work. */ - irqctx->tinfo.preempt_count = curctx->tinfo.preempt_count; - if (unlikely(overflow)) call_on_stack(print_stack_overflow, isp); @@ -131,7 +128,6 @@ void irq_ctx_init(int cpu) THREAD_SIZE_ORDER)); memset(&irqctx->tinfo, 0, sizeof(struct thread_info)); irqctx->tinfo.cpu = cpu; - irqctx->tinfo.preempt_count = HARDIRQ_OFFSET; irqctx->tinfo.addr_limit = MAKE_MM_SEG(0); per_cpu(hardirq_ctx, cpu) = irqctx; -- cgit