x86, percpu: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accesses

This is very useful for some common things like 'get_current()' and
'get_thread_info()', which can be used multiple times in a function, and
where the result is cacheable.

tj: Added the magical undocumented "P" modifier to UP __percpu_arg()
    to force gcc to dereference the pointer value passed in via the
    "p" input constraint.  Without this, percpu_read_stable() returns
    the address of the percpu variable.  Also added comment explaining
    the difference between percpu_read() and percpu_read_stable().

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
index fad7d40b75f..a1bb5a114bf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, kernel_stack);
 static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
 {
         struct thread_info *ti;
-        ti = (void *)(percpu_read(kernel_stack) +
+        ti = (void *)(percpu_read_stable(kernel_stack) +
                       KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET - THREAD_SIZE);
         return ti;
 }