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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2015-09-28 18:11:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-10-06 17:08:18 +0200 |
| commit | d87b7a33794f52226131f93cbc9db03274d9fecf (patch) | |
| tree | e1ccd2b403395dc1e9c7e5f3ba2c04960026af39 /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | da7142e2ed735e1c1bef5a757dc55de35c65fbd6 (diff) | |
sched/core, sched/x86: Kill thread_info::saved_preempt_count
With the introduction of the context switch preempt_count invariant,
and the demise of PREEMPT_ACTIVE, its pointless to save/restore the
per-cpu preemption count, it must always be 2.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c index 737527b40e5b..9f950917528b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c @@ -280,14 +280,6 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p) set_iopl_mask(next->iopl); /* - * If it were not for PREEMPT_ACTIVE we could guarantee that the - * preempt_count of all tasks was equal here and this would not be - * needed. - */ - task_thread_info(prev_p)->saved_preempt_count = this_cpu_read(__preempt_count); - this_cpu_write(__preempt_count, task_thread_info(next_p)->saved_preempt_count); - - /* * Now maybe handle debug registers and/or IO bitmaps */ if (unlikely(task_thread_info(prev_p)->flags & _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_PREV || diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index b35921a670b2..d7f1d5c4387d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -401,14 +401,6 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p) */ this_cpu_write(current_task, next_p); - /* - * If it were not for PREEMPT_ACTIVE we could guarantee that the - * preempt_count of all tasks was equal here and this would not be - * needed. - */ - task_thread_info(prev_p)->saved_preempt_count = this_cpu_read(__preempt_count); - this_cpu_write(__preempt_count, task_thread_info(next_p)->saved_preempt_count); - /* Reload esp0 and ss1. This changes current_thread_info(). */ load_sp0(tss, next); |