From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1.windriver.com (mail1.windriver.com [147.11.146.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail1.windriver.com", Issuer "Intel External Basic Issuing CA 3A" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0251C2C0303 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:28:52 +1000 (EST) From: Tiejun Chen To: Subject: [v5][PATCH 5/6] powerpc/kgdb: use DEFINE_PER_CPU to allocate kgdb's thread_info Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:28:29 +0800 Message-ID: <1371724110-8250-6-git-send-email-tiejun.chen@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <1371724110-8250-1-git-send-email-tiejun.chen@windriver.com> References: <1371724110-8250-1-git-send-email-tiejun.chen@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Use DEFINE_PER_CPU to allocate thread_info statically instead of kmalloc(). This can avoid introducing more memory check codes. Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen --- arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c index 55409ac..cde7818 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c @@ -151,15 +151,15 @@ static int kgdb_handle_breakpoint(struct pt_regs *regs) return 1; } +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct thread_info, kgdb_thread_info); static int kgdb_singlestep(struct pt_regs *regs) { struct thread_info *thread_info, *exception_thread_info; - struct thread_info *backup_current_thread_info; + struct thread_info *backup_current_thread_info = &__get_cpu_var(kgdb_thread_info); if (user_mode(regs)) return 0; - backup_current_thread_info = kmalloc(sizeof(struct thread_info), GFP_KERNEL); /* * On Book E and perhaps other processors, singlestep is handled on * the critical exception stack. This causes current_thread_info() @@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ static int kgdb_singlestep(struct pt_regs *regs) /* Restore current_thread_info lastly. */ memcpy(exception_thread_info, backup_current_thread_info, sizeof *thread_info); - kfree(backup_current_thread_info); return 1; } -- 1.7.9.5