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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2006-09-26 04:52:38 -0400
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-09-26 04:52:38 -0400
commit53ee11ae0d73f28029a5f0d991bc4dcd7c817e7a (patch)
treec0a025cc592d516674bb1d8a0046bf281b6d1724 /arch/x86_64/kernel
parent80d2679cbc8e170011c9649fb8fb684ffd7e5c8f (diff)
[PATCH] Optimize PDA accesses slightly
Based on a idea by Jeremy Fitzhardinge: Replace the volatiles and memory clobbers in the PDA access with telling gcc about access to a proxy PDA structure that doesn't actually exist. But the dummy accesses give a defined ordering for read/write accesses. Also add some memory barriers to the early GS initialization to make sure no PDA access is moved before it. Advantage is some .text savings (probably most from better code for accessing "current"): text data bss dec hex filename 4845647 1223688 615864 6685199 66020f vmlinux 4837780 1223688 615864 6677332 65e354 vmlinux-pda 1.2% smaller code Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c
index e85cfbb49b63..491361752c70 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c
@@ -121,7 +121,10 @@ void pda_init(int cpu)
121 121
122 /* Setup up data that may be needed in __get_free_pages early */ 122 /* Setup up data that may be needed in __get_free_pages early */
123 asm volatile("movl %0,%%fs ; movl %0,%%gs" :: "r" (0)); 123 asm volatile("movl %0,%%fs ; movl %0,%%gs" :: "r" (0));
124 /* Memory clobbers used to order PDA accessed */
125 mb();
124 wrmsrl(MSR_GS_BASE, pda); 126 wrmsrl(MSR_GS_BASE, pda);
127 mb();
125 128
126 pda->cpunumber = cpu; 129 pda->cpunumber = cpu;
127 pda->irqcount = -1; 130 pda->irqcount = -1;