linux/arch
Christoph Lameter 6855e95ce3 arc: 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 calcualtions are avoided
and less registers are used when code is generated.

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

The patchset 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, u);
	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(this_cpu_ptr(&x), 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)

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
2013-11-06 10:40:37 +05:30
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alpha Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
arc arc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses 2013-11-06 10:40:37 +05:30
arm ARM: SoC fixes for 3.12-rc 2013-10-25 11:49:23 +01:00
arm64 arm64: Remove duplicate DEBUG_STACK_USAGE config 2013-10-02 18:03:26 +01:00
avr32 avr32: cast syscall_return to silence compiler warning 2013-09-30 08:42:01 +02:00
blackfin Merge branch 'genirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2013-09-13 07:31:38 -07:00
c6x Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
cris Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
frv Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
h8300 Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
hexagon Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
ia64 Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
m32r Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
m68k Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
metag Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
microblaze Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
mips MIPS: ralink: fix return value check in rt_timer_probe() 2013-10-31 12:38:34 +01:00
mn10300 Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
openrisc openrisc: clean-up prom.h 2013-09-24 21:12:27 -05:00
parisc parisc: Do not crash 64bit SMP kernels on machines with >= 4GB RAM 2013-10-27 15:58:44 +01:00
powerpc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-10-23 07:47:42 +01:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2013-10-23 08:10:25 +01:00
score Score: Modify the Makefile of Score, remove -mlong-calls for compiling 2013-09-26 03:46:03 +08:00
sh Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-10-23 07:47:42 +01:00
tile arch: tile: re-use kbasename() helper 2013-09-30 10:34:46 -04:00
um uml: check length in exitcode_proc_write() 2013-10-30 12:24:49 -07:00
unicore32 Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
x86 Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-11-01 12:54:51 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: Cocci spatch "noderef" 2013-10-16 11:48:31 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig mutex: replace CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX with simple ifdef 2013-09-28 12:46:21 +02:00