linux/arch/alpha
Christoph Lameter 2999a4b354 alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var
__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

#define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&(var)))

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.

The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e.  using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(&x, this_cpu_ptr(&y), sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_inc(y)

CC: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-08-26 13:45:53 -04:00
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boot alpha: boot: fix build breakage introduced by system.h disintegration 2013-03-08 15:05:34 -08:00
include lib/scatterlist: clean up useless architecture versions of scatterlist.h 2014-08-08 15:57:26 -07:00
kernel alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var 2014-08-26 13:45:53 -04:00
lib alpha: fix broken network checksum 2014-01-31 09:21:55 -08:00
math-emu alpha: change to new Makefile flag variables 2011-01-17 05:42:13 +01:00
mm arch: mm: pass userspace fault flag to generic fault handler 2013-09-12 15:38:01 -07:00
oprofile oprofilefs_create_...() do not need superblock argument 2013-09-03 22:52:48 -04:00
defconfig defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
Kconfig Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
Kconfig.debug alpha/parisc: remove config variable DEBUG_RWLOCK 2008-02-06 10:41:03 -08:00
Makefile alpha: makefile: don't enforce small data model for kernel builds 2013-04-07 12:59:30 -07:00