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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: virtualization <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] (Optional) implement current as a per-cpu var
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:29:00 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159162141.26986.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158926502.26261.20.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 22:01 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> This implements current as a per-cpu variable.

Again, revised for updated 5/7: we no longer need to avoid using current
early on.

This implements current as a per-cpu variable.  The generic code
expects it in thread_info still, so I don't remove it from there, but
reducing current from 9 bytes/3 insns to 6 bytes/1 insn is a nice
micro-optimization.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Index: ak-fresh/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
===================================================================
--- ak-fresh.orig/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	2006-09-25 15:02:33.000000000 +1000
+++ ak-fresh/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	2006-09-25 15:06:31.000000000 +1000
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@
 
 unsigned char __initdata boot_params[PARAM_SIZE];
 
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, current_task) = &init_task;
+EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(current_task);
+
 static struct resource data_resource = {
 	.name	= "Kernel data",
 	.start	= 0,
Index: ak-fresh/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
===================================================================
--- ak-fresh.orig/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c	2006-09-25 15:02:51.000000000 +1000
+++ ak-fresh/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c	2006-09-25 15:06:31.000000000 +1000
@@ -972,6 +972,7 @@
 	if (IS_ERR(idle))
 		panic("failed fork for CPU %d", cpu);
 	idle->thread.eip = (unsigned long) start_secondary;
+	per_cpu(current_task, cpu) = idle;
 
  	setup_percpu(cpu);
  	booting_cpu_gdt_desc_ptr = &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, cpu);
Index: ak-fresh/include/asm-i386/current.h
===================================================================
--- ak-fresh.orig/include/asm-i386/current.h	2006-09-25 15:02:33.000000000 +1000
+++ ak-fresh/include/asm-i386/current.h	2006-09-25 15:06:31.000000000 +1000
@@ -1,15 +1,10 @@
 #ifndef _I386_CURRENT_H
 #define _I386_CURRENT_H
 
+#include <asm/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/thread_info.h>
 
-struct task_struct;
-
-static __always_inline struct task_struct * get_current(void)
-{
-	return current_thread_info()->task;
-}
- 
-#define current get_current()
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, current_task);
+#define current x86_read_percpu(current_task)
 
 #endif /* !(_I386_CURRENT_H) */
Index: ak-fresh/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
===================================================================
--- ak-fresh.orig/arch/i386/kernel/process.c	2006-09-25 15:02:33.000000000 +1000
+++ ak-fresh/arch/i386/kernel/process.c	2006-09-25 15:06:31.000000000 +1000
@@ -669,6 +669,7 @@
 	if (unlikely(prev->fs | next->fs))
 		loadsegment(fs, next->fs);
 
+	x86_write_percpu(current_task, next_p);
 
 	/*
 	 * Restore IOPL if needed.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-25  5:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-22 11:51 [PATCH 0/7] Using %gs for per-cpu areas on x86 Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 11:53 ` [PATCH 1/7] Use per-cpu GDT tables from early in boot Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 11:55   ` [PATCH 2/7] Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 11:56     ` [PATCH 3/7] Update sys_vm86 to cope with changed pt_regs and %gs usage Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 11:58       ` [PATCH 4/7] Fix places where using %gs changes the usermode ABI Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 11:59         ` [PATCH 5/7] Use %gs for per-cpu sections in kernel Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 12:00           ` [PATCH 6/7] (Optional) implement smp_processor_id() as a per-cpu var Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 12:01             ` [PATCH 7/7] (Optional) implement current " Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  5:29               ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2006-09-25  5:27             ` [PATCH 6/7] (Optional) implement smp_processor_id() " Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 12:32           ` [PATCH 5/7] Use %gs for per-cpu sections in kernel Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 22:43             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-22 23:52               ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-23  4:51             ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-23  8:17               ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-23  8:55                 ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 22:39           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-23  4:31             ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  1:03               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-25  1:16                 ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  1:36                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-25  2:51                     ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  5:25                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-25  6:03                         ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  6:25                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-25 23:33                             ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-23  8:13             ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-25  1:07               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-25  1:20                 ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  5:26                   ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 22:24     ` [PATCH 2/7] Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-23  4:36       ` Rusty Russell

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