linux/arch/mips/cavium-octeon
Christoph Lameter 35898716b4 mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
__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: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-08-26 13:45:51 -04:00
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executive Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2014-08-07 08:47:00 -07:00
.gitignore MIPS: Octeon: Add device tree source files. 2012-07-23 13:54:52 +01:00
cpu.c MIPS: Octeon: Place cnmips_cu2_setup in __init memory. 2010-10-04 18:34:00 +01:00
csrc-octeon.c MIPS: Optimize current_cpu_type() for better code. 2013-09-17 18:50:53 +02:00
dma-octeon.c x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb 2013-01-29 19:36:53 -08:00
flash_setup.c mips/octeon: 16-Bit NOR flash was not being detected during boot 2012-11-09 11:37:16 +01:00
Kconfig MIPS: OCTEON: Move CAVIUM_OCTEON_CVMSEG_SIZE to CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON 2014-05-30 21:01:10 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch '3.10-fixes' into mips-for-linux-next 2013-07-12 18:11:43 +02:00
oct_ilm.c MIPS: Octeon: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove_recursive 2014-08-02 00:06:47 +02:00
octeon_3xxx.dts MIPS: OCTEON: Supply OCTEON+ USB nodes in internal device trees. 2014-01-23 13:02:35 +01:00
octeon_68xx.dts MIPS: Whitespace cleanup. 2013-02-01 10:00:22 +01:00
octeon_boot.h MIPS: Whitespace cleanup. 2013-02-01 10:00:22 +01:00
octeon-irq.c mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses 2014-08-26 13:45:51 -04:00
octeon-memcpy.S MIPS: Whitespace cleanup. 2013-02-01 10:00:22 +01:00
octeon-platform.c MIPS: OCTEON: Supply OCTEON+ USB nodes in internal device trees. 2014-01-23 13:02:35 +01:00
Platform MIPS: OCTEON: Rename Kconfig CAVIUM_OCTEON_REFERENCE_BOARD to CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC 2013-06-10 18:01:25 +02:00
setup.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2014-06-09 18:10:34 -07:00
smp.c MIPS: OCTEON: disable HOTPLUG_CPU if the bootloader version is incorrect 2014-08-02 00:06:42 +02:00