Ingo Molnar 22245bdf0a x86/segments: Introduce the 'CPUNODE' naming to better document the segment limit CPU/node NR trick ... We have a special segment descriptor entry in the GDT, whose sole purpose is to encode the CPU and node numbers in its limit (size) field. There are user-space instructions that allow the reading of the limit field, which gives us a really fast way to read the CPU and node IDs from the vDSO for example. But the naming of related functionality does not make this clear, at all: VDSO_CPU_SIZE VDSO_CPU_MASK __CPU_NUMBER_SEG GDT_ENTRY_CPU_NUMBER vdso_encode_cpu_node vdso_read_cpu_node There's a number of problems: - The 'VDSO_CPU_SIZE' doesn't really make it clear that these are number of bits, nor does it make it clear which 'CPU' this refers to, i.e. that this is about a GDT entry whose limit encodes the CPU and node number. - Furthermore, the 'CPU_NUMBER' naming is actively misleading as well, because the segment limit encodes not just the CPU number but the node ID as well ... So use a better nomenclature all around: name everything related to this trick as 'CPUNODE', to make it clear that this is something special, and add _BITS to make it clear that these are number of bits, and propagate this to every affected name: VDSO_CPU_SIZE => VDSO_CPUNODE_BITS VDSO_CPU_MASK => VDSO_CPUNODE_MASK __CPU_NUMBER_SEG => __CPUNODE_SEG GDT_ENTRY_CPU_NUMBER => GDT_ENTRY_CPUNODE vdso_encode_cpu_node => vdso_encode_cpunode vdso_read_cpu_node => vdso_read_cpunode This, beyond being less confusing, also makes it easier to grep for all related functionality: $ git grep -i cpunode arch/x86 Also, while at it, fix "return is not a function" style sloppiness in vdso_encode_cpunode(). Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1537312139-5580-2-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>		2018-10-08 10:45:02 +02:00
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asm	x86/segments: Introduce the 'CPUNODE' naming to better document the segment limit CPU/node NR trick	2018-10-08 10:45:02 +02:00
uapi/asm	x86/kvm/lapic: always disable MMIO interface in x2APIC mode	2018-09-20 00:26:43 +02:00