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sched, x86: Provide a per-cpu preempt_count implementation

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Convert x86 to use a per-cpu preemption count. The reason for doing so
is that accessing per-cpu variables is a lot cheaper than accessing
thread_info variables.

We still need to save/restore the actual preemption count due to
PREEMPT_ACTIVE so we place the per-cpu __preempt_count variable in the
same cache-line as the other hot __switch_to() variables such as
current_task.

NOTE: this save/restore is required even for !PREEMPT kernels as
cond_resched() also relies on preempt_count's PREEMPT_ACTIVE to ignore
task_struct::state.

Also rename thread_info::preempt_count to ensure nobody is
'accidentally' still poking at it.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gzn5rfsf8trgjoqx8hyayy3q@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-14 14:51:00 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent a233f1120c
commit c2daa3bed5
10 changed files with 124 additions and 17 deletions
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@@ -291,6 +291,14 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
if (get_kernel_rpl() && unlikely(prev->iopl != next->iopl))
set_iopl_mask(next->iopl);
/*
* If it were not for PREEMPT_ACTIVE we could guarantee that the
* preempt_count of all tasks was equal here and this would not be
* needed.
*/
task_thread_info(prev_p)->saved_preempt_count = this_cpu_read(__preempt_count);
this_cpu_write(__preempt_count, task_thread_info(next_p)->saved_preempt_count);
/*
* Now maybe handle debug registers and/or IO bitmaps
*/