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SubjectRe: [RFC 0/5] percpu: Optimize percpu accesses

* Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:

> This patchset provides the following:
>
> * Cleanup: Fix early references to cpumask_of_cpu(0)
> * Generic: Percpu infrastructure to rebase the per cpu area to zero
> * x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area
> * x86_64: Rebase per cpu variables to zero

thanks Mike - i've started testing it in -tip. One small merge fallout
fix is below. (it's for the new generic-ipi topic that was not in
tip/master yet when you merged percpu-zerobased to it)

Ingo

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commit d1d4ed23aab090298b9d4da0fe445b96afcdd309
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Tue Jul 1 16:44:45 2008 +0200

x86: percpu-zerobased fallout fixlet

add_pda(x,1) => x86_inc_percpu(pda.x)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
index 361b7a4..1ddf629 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ void smp_call_function_single_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
__get_cpu_var(irq_stat).irq_call_count++;
#else
- add_pda(irq_call_count, 1);
+ x86_inc_percpu(pda.irq_call_count);
#endif
irq_exit();
}

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