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sched/core, sched/x86: Kill thread_info::saved_preempt_count

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With the introduction of the context switch preempt_count invariant,
and the demise of PREEMPT_ACTIVE, its pointless to save/restore the
per-cpu preemption count, it must always be 2.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-28 18:11:18 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent da7142e2ed
commit d87b7a3379
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@@ -279,14 +279,6 @@ __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
*/