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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2006-12-06 20:14:03 -0500
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-12-06 20:14:03 -0500
commitec7fcaabbfb3c5bd5189f857b6ac7bb9745ef291 (patch)
tree9730e2849a9943e26f8d32f394296fd685b85e39 /include/asm-i386
parentb2938f880890ebfcccad356275e0000193153623 (diff)
[PATCH] i386: Implement "current" with the PDA
Use the pcurrent field in the PDA to implement the "current" macro. This ends up compiling down to a single instruction to get the current task. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-i386')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-i386/current.h7
-rw-r--r--include/asm-i386/pda.h2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/current.h b/include/asm-i386/current.h
index 3cbbecd79016..5252ee0f6d7a 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/current.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/current.h
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
1#ifndef _I386_CURRENT_H 1#ifndef _I386_CURRENT_H
2#define _I386_CURRENT_H 2#define _I386_CURRENT_H
3 3
4#include <linux/thread_info.h> 4#include <asm/pda.h>
5#include <linux/compiler.h>
5 6
6struct task_struct; 7struct task_struct;
7 8
8static __always_inline struct task_struct * get_current(void) 9static __always_inline struct task_struct *get_current(void)
9{ 10{
10 return current_thread_info()->task; 11 return read_pda(pcurrent);
11} 12}
12 13
13#define current get_current() 14#define current get_current()
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/pda.h b/include/asm-i386/pda.h
index f90fde22566d..08a35c478af2 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/pda.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/pda.h
@@ -7,12 +7,14 @@
7#define _I386_PDA_H 7#define _I386_PDA_H
8 8
9#include <linux/stddef.h> 9#include <linux/stddef.h>
10#include <linux/types.h>
10 11
11struct i386_pda 12struct i386_pda
12{ 13{
13 struct i386_pda *_pda; /* pointer to self */ 14 struct i386_pda *_pda; /* pointer to self */
14 15
15 int cpu_number; 16 int cpu_number;
17 struct task_struct *pcurrent; /* current process */
16}; 18};
17 19
18extern struct i386_pda *_cpu_pda[]; 20extern struct i386_pda *_cpu_pda[];