Re: [PATCH] Code clean up for percpu_xxx() functions

From: Alex,Shi
Date: Wed Oct 19 2011 - 22:42:25 EST




> All of the kvm usage is in preemption disabled contexts.

Thanks! So would you like to ack this patch?

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>From 8ca7e6e40d75eab598c4fb4f8d555299b747adfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:31:51 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Change this_cpu_xxx to __this_cpu_xxx funcs

According to Avi, all of this_cpu_xx used in preempt disable context,
So change them to __this_cpu_xxx that without abundant preempt
protection.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 +++++-----
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 5ff2516..432c4bc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -5024,15 +5024,15 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_vcpu *, current_vcpu);

static int kvm_is_in_guest(void)
{
- return this_cpu_read(current_vcpu) != NULL;
+ return __this_cpu_read(current_vcpu) != NULL;
}

static int kvm_is_user_mode(void)
{
int user_mode = 3;

- if (this_cpu_read(current_vcpu))
- user_mode = kvm_x86_ops->get_cpl(this_cpu_read(current_vcpu));
+ if (__this_cpu_read(current_vcpu))
+ user_mode = kvm_x86_ops->get_cpl(__this_cpu_read(current_vcpu));

return user_mode != 0;
}
@@ -5041,8 +5041,8 @@ static unsigned long kvm_get_guest_ip(void)
{
unsigned long ip = 0;

- if (this_cpu_read(current_vcpu))
- ip = kvm_rip_read(this_cpu_read(current_vcpu));
+ if (__this_cpu_read(current_vcpu))
+ ip = kvm_rip_read(__this_cpu_read(current_vcpu));

return ip;
}
--
1.6.3.3




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