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Linus Torvalds 9073e1a804 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from
  trivial.git"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits)
  doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt
  doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX
  timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments
  mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments
  irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments
  NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text
  mm: update 00-INDEX
  doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo
  DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half'
  Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers'
  doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures
  treewide: fix "usefull" typo
  treewide: fix "distingush" typo
  mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/
  kexec: Typo s/the/then/
  Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi
  treewide: Fix common typo in "identify"
  __page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment
  Correct some typos for word frequency
  clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo
  ...
2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 6855e95ce3 arc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of them is
address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates the address for
the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current processors percpu area.
__get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

#define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&(var)))

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store and retrieve operations
could use a segment prefix (or global register on other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a percpu area and use
optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address calculation using this_cpu_ptr()
or into a use of this_cpu operations that use the offset. Thereby address calcualtions are avoided
and less registers are used when code is generated.

At the end of the patchset all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so the macro is removed too.

The patchset includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations are used throughout then
specialized macros can be defined in non -x86 arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by
f.e. using a global register that may be set to the per cpu base.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, u);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(this_cpu_ptr(&x), y, sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	this_cpu_inc(y)

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
2013-11-06 10:40:37 +05:30
Anoop Thomas Mathew 23d6d3db66 doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures
Signed-off-by: Anoop Thomas Mathew <atm@profoundis.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-10-14 15:46:39 +02:00
Vineet Gupta 38a9ff6d24 ARC: Remove explicit passing around of ECR
With ECR now part of pt_regs

* No need to propagate from lowest asm handlers as arg
* No need to save it in tsk->thread.cause_code
* Avoid bit chopping to access the bit-fields

More code consolidation, cleanup

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-06-26 15:30:50 +05:30
Sachin Kamat e420c82d09 ARC: Remove duplicate inclusion of header files
Some header files were included twice in the same file.

Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-04-09 12:21:15 +05:30
Vineet Gupta 7f85e5ec0d ARC: [3.9] Fallout of hlist iterator update
Commit 0bbacca "hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators" changed
the iterator across the board - but ARC port being out-of-tree missed
it.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-02-15 23:16:20 +05:30
Vineet Gupta 4d86dfbbda ARC: kprobes support
Origin port done by Rajeshwar Ranga

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Rajeshwar Ranga <rajeshwar.ranga@gmail.com>
2013-02-15 23:16:05 +05:30