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Subject[RFC PATCH REBASED 0/3] Move ARCH specific fpu_counter out of task_struct
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Hi,

This is a resend of the patches I sent last week which failed to draw any
attention.

This basically came up when ARC SMP 3.11 failed to build due to a ST insn
dealing with task_struct.thread going out of range.

When staring at code I spotted @fpu_counter in task_struct which only SH/x86
happen to use, and can be easily moved out into corresponding ARCH specific
thread_struct. This saves 4 bytes per task_struct instantiated, for all the
other 18 arches.

One of the resistance to the patch(es) could be that task_struct fields were at
some point arranged to reduce the number of line misses. However there is lot
of variance there due to so many #ifdefs, variable size of cpumask (>32 cores..)
etc, so that argument alone might not be sufficient vs. saving 4 bytes per
instance.

Comments please !

Thx,
-Vineet

Vineet Gupta (3):
sh: Move fpu_counter into ARCH specific thread_struct
x86: Move fpu_counter into ARCH specific thread_struct
sched: Remove ARCH specific fpu_counter from task_struct

arch/sh/include/asm/fpu.h | 2 +-
arch/sh/include/asm/processor_32.h | 10 ++++++++++
arch/sh/include/asm/processor_64.h | 10 ++++++++++
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/fpu.c | 2 +-
arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c | 6 +++---
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h | 10 +++++-----
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 9 +++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/i387.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
include/linux/sched.h | 9 ---------
12 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

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1.8.1.2



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