__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)



Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>

Index: linux/drivers/staging/zcache/ramster/ramster.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/staging/zcache/ramster/ramster.c 2013-08-22 
14:14:40.400841754 -0500
+++ linux/drivers/staging/zcache/ramster/ramster.c      2013-08-22 
14:15:51.000000000 -0500
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static struct flushlist_node *ramster_fl
        struct flushlist_node *flnode = NULL;
        struct ramster_preload *kp;
 
-       kp = &__get_cpu_var(ramster_preloads);
+       kp = this_cpu_ptr(&ramster_preloads);
        flnode = kp->flnode;
        BUG_ON(flnode == NULL);
        kp->flnode = NULL;
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ int ramster_do_preload_flnode(struct tme
        BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
        if (unlikely(ramster_flnode_cache == NULL))
                BUG();
-       kp = &__get_cpu_var(ramster_preloads);
+       kp = this_cpu_ptr(&ramster_preloads);
        flnode = kmem_cache_alloc(ramster_flnode_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (unlikely(flnode == NULL) && kp->flnode == NULL)
                BUG();  /* FIXME handle more gracefully, but how??? */
@@ -478,8 +478,8 @@ int ramster_remotify_pageframe(bool eph)
        struct tmem_handle th[2];
        unsigned int zsize[2];
 
-       tmpmem[0] = __get_cpu_var(ramster_remoteputmem1);
-       tmpmem[1] = __get_cpu_var(ramster_remoteputmem2);
+       tmpmem[0] = __this_cpu_read(ramster_remoteputmem1);
+       tmpmem[1] = __this_cpu_read(ramster_remoteputmem2);
        local_bh_disable();
        zbuds = zbud_make_zombie_lru(&th[0], &tmpmem[0], &zsize[0], eph);
        /* now OK to release lock set in caller */
Index: linux/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c     2013-08-22 
14:14:40.400841754 -0500
+++ linux/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c  2013-08-22 14:15:51.000000000 
-0500
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ static struct tmem_objnode *zcache_objno
        struct zcache_preload *kp;
        int i;
 
-       kp = &__get_cpu_var(zcache_preloads);
+       kp = this_cpu_ptr(&zcache_preloads);
        for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(kp->objnodes); i++) {
                objnode = kp->objnodes[i];
                if (objnode != NULL) {
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static struct tmem_obj *zcache_obj_alloc
        struct tmem_obj *obj = NULL;
        struct zcache_preload *kp;
 
-       kp = &__get_cpu_var(zcache_preloads);
+       kp = this_cpu_ptr(&zcache_preloads);
        obj = kp->obj;
        BUG_ON(obj == NULL);
        kp->obj = NULL;
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ void *zcache_pampd_create(char *data, un
        /* pre-allocate per-cpu metadata */
        BUG_ON(zcache_objnode_cache == NULL);
        BUG_ON(zcache_obj_cache == NULL);
-       kp = &__get_cpu_var(zcache_preloads);
+       kp = this_cpu_ptr(&zcache_preloads);
        for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(kp->objnodes); i++) {
                objnode = kp->objnodes[i];
                if (objnode == NULL) {
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned char *, z
 static void zcache_compress(struct page *from, void **out_va, unsigned 
*out_len)
 {
        int ret;
-       unsigned char *dmem = __get_cpu_var(zcache_dstmem);
+       unsigned char *dmem = __this_cpu_read(zcache_dstmem);
        char *from_va;
 
        BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
Index: linux/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c 2013-08-22 
14:14:29.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c      2013-08-22 
14:15:51.000000000 -0500
@@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ void zs_unmap_object(struct zs_pool *poo
        class = &pool->size_class[class_idx];
        off = obj_idx_to_offset(page, obj_idx, class->size);
 
-       area = &__get_cpu_var(zs_map_area);
+       area = this_cpu_ptr(&zs_map_area);
        if (off + class->size <= PAGE_SIZE)
                kunmap_atomic(area->vm_addr);
        else {

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