x86: fold pda into percpu area on SMP

[ Based on original patch from Christoph Lameter and Mike Travis. ]

Currently pdas and percpu areas are allocated separately.  %gs points
to local pda and percpu area can be reached using pda->data_offset.
This patch folds pda into percpu area.

Due to strange gcc requirement, pda needs to be at the beginning of
the percpu area so that pda->stack_canary is at %gs:40.  To achieve
this, a new percpu output section macro - PERCPU_VADDR_PREALLOC() - is
added and used to reserve pda sized chunk at the start of the percpu
area.

After this change, for boot cpu, %gs first points to pda in the
data.init area and later during setup_per_cpu_areas() gets updated to
point to the actual pda.  This means that setup_per_cpu_areas() need
to reload %gs for CPU0 while clearing pda area for other cpus as cpu0
already has modified it when control reaches setup_per_cpu_areas().

This patch also removes now unnecessary get_local_pda() and its call
sites.

A lot of this patch is taken from Mike Travis' "x86_64: Fold pda into
per cpu area" patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This commit is contained in:
Tejun Heo
2009-01-13 20:41:35 +09:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent c8f3329a0d
commit 1a51e3a0ae
11 changed files with 104 additions and 144 deletions

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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#define LOAD_OFFSET __START_KERNEL_map
#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#undef i386 /* in case the preprocessor is a 32bit one */
@@ -215,10 +216,11 @@ SECTIONS
/*
* percpu offsets are zero-based on SMP. PERCPU_VADDR() changes the
* output PHDR, so the next output section - __data_nosave - should
* switch it back to data.init.
* switch it back to data.init. Also, pda should be at the head of
* percpu area. Preallocate it.
*/
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
PERCPU_VADDR(0, :percpu)
PERCPU_VADDR_PREALLOC(0, :percpu, pda_size)
#else
PERCPU(PAGE_SIZE)
#endif