linux/arch
Ingo Molnar 6dbde35308 percpu: add optimized generic percpu accessors
It is an optimization and a cleanup, and adds the following new
generic percpu methods:

  percpu_read()
  percpu_write()
  percpu_add()
  percpu_sub()
  percpu_and()
  percpu_or()
  percpu_xor()

and implements support for them on x86. (other architectures will fall
back to a default implementation)

The advantage is that for example to read a local percpu variable,
instead of this sequence:

 return __get_cpu_var(var);

 ffffffff8102ca2b:	48 8b 14 fd 80 09 74 	mov    -0x7e8bf680(,%rdi,8),%rdx
 ffffffff8102ca32:	81
 ffffffff8102ca33:	48 c7 c0 d8 59 00 00 	mov    $0x59d8,%rax
 ffffffff8102ca3a:	48 8b 04 10          	mov    (%rax,%rdx,1),%rax

We can get a single instruction by using the optimized variants:

 return percpu_read(var);

 ffffffff8102ca3f:	65 48 8b 05 91 8f fd 	mov    %gs:0x7efd8f91(%rip),%rax

I also cleaned up the x86-specific APIs and made the x86 code use
these new generic percpu primitives.

tj: * fixed generic percpu_sub() definition as Roel Kluin pointed out
    * added percpu_and() for completeness's sake
    * made generic percpu ops atomic against preemption

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-16 14:20:31 +01:00
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alpha irq: update all arches for new irq_desc 2009-01-12 15:27:13 -08:00
arm Merge branches 'cpus4096', 'x86/cleanups' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/percpu 2009-01-15 13:18:57 +01:00
avr32 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx 2009-01-09 11:52:14 -08:00
blackfin irq: update all arches for new irq_desc 2009-01-12 15:27:13 -08:00
cris Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-01-07 11:31:52 -08:00
frv NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
h8300 NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
ia64 irq: update all arches for new irq_desc, fix 2009-01-15 11:15:36 +01:00
m32r Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-01-03 12:04:39 -08:00
m68k m68k: Fix --build-id breakage for sun3 2009-01-12 20:56:44 +01:00
m68knommu NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
mips Merge branches 'cpus4096', 'x86/cleanups' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/percpu 2009-01-15 13:18:57 +01:00
mn10300 irq: update all arches for new irq_desc, fix 2009-01-15 11:15:36 +01:00
parisc irq: update all arches for new irq_desc 2009-01-12 15:27:13 -08:00
powerpc Merge branches 'cpus4096', 'x86/cleanups' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/percpu 2009-01-15 13:18:57 +01:00
s390 [S390] Use unsigned long long for u64 on 64bit. 2009-01-09 12:15:07 +01:00
sh NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
sparc Merge branches 'cpus4096', 'x86/cleanups' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/percpu 2009-01-15 13:18:57 +01:00
um mm: invoke oom-killer from page fault 2009-01-06 15:58:58 -08:00
x86 percpu: add optimized generic percpu accessors 2009-01-16 14:20:31 +01:00
xtensa xtensa: introduce swab.h 2009-01-07 12:22:04 -08:00
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