[PATCH] printk: use this_cpu_{read|write} api on printk_pending

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Nov 26 2010 - 11:22:25 EST


Le vendredi 26 novembre 2010 Ã 15:02 +0000, tip-bot for Heiko Carstens a
Ãcrit :
> Commit-ID: 61ab25447ad6334a74e32f60efb135a3467223f8
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/61ab25447ad6334a74e32f60efb135a3467223f8
> Author: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:00:59 +0100
> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:03:12 +0100
>

...

> diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
> index cf7588e..a23315d 100644
> --- a/kernel/printk.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk.c
> @@ -1082,6 +1082,8 @@ void printk_tick(void)
>
> int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu)
> {
> + if (unlikely(cpu_is_offline(cpu)))
> + printk_tick();
> return per_cpu(printk_pending, cpu);
> }
>

The unlikely() was not needed, since we already have :
#define cpu_is_offline(cpu) unlikely(!cpu_online(cpu))

Anyway, this patch implies 'cpu' is always the current cpu.

If so, we can have a followup patch to use modern this_cpu api.

Thanks

[PATCH] printk: use this_cpu_{read|write} api on printk_pending

__get_cpu_var() is a bit inefficient, lets use __this_cpu_read() and
__this_cpu_write() to manipulate printk_pending.

printk_needs_cpu(cpu) is called only for the current cpu :
Use faster __this_cpu_read().

remove the redondant unlikely on (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) test

# size kernel/printk.o*
text data bss dec hex filename
9942 756 263488 274186 42f0a kernel/printk.o.new
9990 756 263488 274234 42f3a kernel/printk.o.old

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/printk.c | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index a23315d..ab3ffc5 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1074,17 +1074,17 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, printk_pending);

void printk_tick(void)
{
- if (__get_cpu_var(printk_pending)) {
- __get_cpu_var(printk_pending) = 0;
+ if (__this_cpu_read(printk_pending)) {
+ __this_cpu_write(printk_pending, 0);
wake_up_interruptible(&log_wait);
}
}

int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu)
{
- if (unlikely(cpu_is_offline(cpu)))
+ if (cpu_is_offline(cpu))
printk_tick();
- return per_cpu(printk_pending, cpu);
+ return __this_cpu_read(printk_pending);
}

void wake_up_klogd(void)


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