Re: [Use cpuops V1 05/11] core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_readif not used for an address.

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Dec 08 2010 - 10:25:32 EST


On 12/07/2010 04:38 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
>> Can you please fold this into the original patch and resend? I
>> skipped 04, 05 and 09. percpu#for-next now contains other patches.
>>
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu.git for-next
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Subject: core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address.
>
> __get_cpu_var() can be replaced with this_cpu_read and will then use a single
> read instruction with implied address calculation to access the correct per cpu
> instance.
>
> However, the address of a per cpu variable passed to __this_cpu_read() cannot be
> determed (since its an implied address conversion through segment prefixes).
> Therefore apply this only to uses of __get_cpu_var where the addres of the
> variable is not used.
>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied. Thanks.

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tejun
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