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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/7] Use %gs for per-cpu sections in kernel
Rusty Russell wrote:
> This patch actually uses the gs register to implement the per-cpu
> sections. It's fairly straightforward: the gs segment starts at the
> per-cpu offset for the particular cpu (or 0, in very early boot).
>
> We also implement x86_64-inspired (via Jeremy Fitzhardinge) per-cpu
> accesses where a general lvalue isn't needed. These
> single-instruction accesses are slightly more efficient, plus (being a
> single insn) are atomic wrt. preemption so we can use them to
> implement cpu_local_inc etc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>
> Index: ak-fresh/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
> ===================================================================
> --- ak-fresh.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2006-09-22 16:48:14.000000000 +1000
> +++ ak-fresh/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2006-09-22 17:02:47.000000000 +1000
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
> #include <asm/mtrr.h>
> #include <asm/mce.h>
> +#include <asm/smp.h>
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
> #include <asm/mpspec.h>
> #include <asm/apic.h>
> @@ -601,12 +602,24 @@
> struct thread_struct *thread = &current->thread;
> struct desc_struct *gdt;
> __u32 stk16_off = (__u32)&per_cpu(cpu_16bit_stack, cpu);
> - struct Xgt_desc_struct *cpu_gdt_descr = &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, cpu);
>
> if (cpu_test_and_set(cpu, cpu_initialized)) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING "CPU#%d already initialized!\n", cpu);
> for (;;) local_irq_enable();
> }
> +
> + /* Set up GDT entry for 16bit stack */
> + stk16_off = (u32)&per_cpu(cpu_16bit_stack, cpu);
> + gdt = per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu);
> + *(__u64 *)(&gdt[GDT_ENTRY_ESPFIX_SS]) |=
> + ((((__u64)stk16_off) << 16) & 0x000000ffffff0000ULL) |
> + ((((__u64)stk16_off) << 32) & 0xff00000000000000ULL) |
> + (CPU_16BIT_STACK_SIZE - 1);
>

This should use pack_descriptor(). I'd never got around to changing it,
but it really should.

> + /* Complete percpu area setup early, before calling printk(),
> + since it may end up using it indirectly. */
> + setup_percpu_for_this_cpu(cpu);
> +
>

I managed to get all this done in head.S before going into C code; is
that not still possible? Or is there a later patch to do this.

> +static __cpuinit void setup_percpu_descriptor(struct desc_struct *gdt,
> + unsigned long per_cpu_off)
> +{
> + unsigned limit, flags;
> +
> + limit = (1 << 20);
> + flags = 0x8; /* 4k granularity */
>

Why not set the limit to the percpu section size? It would avoid having
it clipped under Xen.


> +/* Be careful not to use %gs references until this is setup: needs to
> + * be done on this CPU. */
> +void __init setup_percpu_for_this_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> + struct desc_struct *gdt = per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu);
> + struct Xgt_desc_struct *cpu_gdt_descr = &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, cpu);
> +
> + per_cpu(this_cpu_off, cpu) = __per_cpu_offset[cpu];
> + setup_percpu_descriptor(&gdt[GDT_ENTRY_PERCPU], __per_cpu_offset[cpu]);
> + cpu_gdt_descr->address = (unsigned long)gdt;
> + cpu_gdt_descr->size = GDT_SIZE - 1;
> + load_gdt(cpu_gdt_descr);
> + set_kernel_gs();
> +}
>

Everything except the load_gdt and set_kernel_gs could be done in advance.

> +
> void __devinit smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void)
> {
> + setup_percpu_for_this_cpu(0);
> +
> cpu_set(smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_map);
> cpu_set(smp_processor_id(), cpu_callout_map);
> cpu_set(smp_processor_id(), cpu_present_map);
> Index: ak-fresh/include/asm-i386/percpu.h
> ===================================================================
> --- ak-fresh.orig/include/asm-i386/percpu.h 2006-09-22 16:48:14.000000000 +1000
> +++ ak-fresh/include/asm-i386/percpu.h 2006-09-22 16:59:00.000000000 +1000
> @@ -1,6 +1,107 @@
> #ifndef __ARCH_I386_PERCPU__
> #define __ARCH_I386_PERCPU__
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> +/* Same as generic implementation except for optimized local access. */
> +#define __GENERIC_PER_CPU
> +
> +/* This is used for other cpus to find our section. */
> +extern unsigned long __per_cpu_offset[NR_CPUS];
> +
> +/* Separate out the type, so (int[3], foo) works. */
> +#define DECLARE_PER_CPU(type, name) extern __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name
> +#define DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name) \
> + __attribute__((__section__(".data.percpu"))) __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name
> +
> +/* We can use this directly for local CPU (faster). */
> +DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, this_cpu_off);
> +
> +/* var is in discarded region: offset to particular copy we want */
> +#define per_cpu(var, cpu) (*({ \
> + extern int simple_indentifier_##var(void); \
> + RELOC_HIDE(&per_cpu__##var, __per_cpu_offset[cpu]); }))
> +
> +#define __raw_get_cpu_var(var) (*({ \
> + extern int simple_indentifier_##var(void); \
> + RELOC_HIDE(&per_cpu__##var, x86_read_percpu(this_cpu_off)); \
> +}))
> +
> +#define __get_cpu_var(var) __raw_get_cpu_var(var)
> +
> +/* A macro to avoid #include hell... */
> +#define percpu_modcopy(pcpudst, src, size) \
> +do { \
> + unsigned int __i; \
> + for_each_possible_cpu(__i) \
> + memcpy((pcpudst)+__per_cpu_offset[__i], \
> + (src), (size)); \
> +} while (0)
> +
> +#define EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(var) EXPORT_SYMBOL(per_cpu__##var)
> +#define EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(var) EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(per_cpu__##var)
> +
> +/* gs segment starts at (positive) offset == __per_cpu_offset[cpu] */
> +#define __percpu_seg "%%gs:"
> +#else /* !SMP */
> #include <asm-generic/percpu.h>
> +#define __percpu_seg ""
> +#endif /* SMP */
> +
> +/* For arch-specific code, we can use direct single-insn ops (they
> + * don't give an lvalue though). */
> +extern void __bad_percpu_size(void);
> +
> +#define percpu_to_op(op,var,val) \
> + do { \
> + typedef typeof(var) T__; \
> + if (0) { T__ tmp__; tmp__ = (val); } \
> + switch (sizeof(var)) { \
> + case 1: \
> + asm(op "b %1,"__percpu_seg"%0" \
>

So are symbols referencing the .data.percpu section 0-based? Wouldn't
you need to subtract __per_cpu_start from the symbols to get a 0-based
segment offset?

Or is the only percpu benefit you're getting from %gs is a slightly
quicker way of getting the percpu_offset? Does that help much?
> +#define x86_read_percpu(var) percpu_from_op("mov", per_cpu__##var)
> +#define x86_write_percpu(var,val) percpu_to_op("mov", per_cpu__##var, val)
> +#define x86_add_percpu(var,val) percpu_to_op("add", per_cpu__##var, val)
> +#define x86_sub_percpu(var,val) percpu_to_op("sub", per_cpu__##var, val)
> +#define x86_or_percpu(var,val) percpu_to_op("or", per_cpu__##var, val)
>

Why x86_? If some other arch implemented a similar mechanism, wouldn't
they want to use the same macro names?

J
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