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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c, branch v5.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use of for_each_node_by_name() instead of open-coding it</title>
<updated>2017-12-04T02:10:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T01:54:37+00:00</published>
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Instead of manually coding the loop with of_find_node_by_name(), let's
switch to the standard macro for iterating over nodes with given name.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix build failures due to typo in mpc832x_mds.c]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Instead of manually coding the loop with of_find_node_by_name(), let's
switch to the standard macro for iterating over nodes with given name.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix build failures due to typo in mpc832x_mds.c]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name</title>
<updated>2017-08-23T12:27:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-21T15:16:47+00:00</published>
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Now that we have a custom printf format specifier, convert users of
full_name to use %pOF instead. This is preparation to remove storing
of the full path string for each node.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin &lt;agust@denx.de&gt;
Cc: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
Cc: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler &lt;tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Now that we have a custom printf format specifier, convert users of
full_name to use %pOF instead. This is preparation to remove storing
of the full path string for each node.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin &lt;agust@denx.de&gt;
Cc: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
Cc: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler &lt;tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add NMI IPI infrastructure</title>
<updated>2017-04-28T11:02:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-19T18:30:08+00:00</published>
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Add a simple NMI IPI system that handles concurrency and reentrancy.

The platform does not have to implement a true non-maskable interrupt,
the default is to simply use the debugger break IPI message. This has
now been co-opted for a general IPI message, and users (debugger and
crash) have been reimplemented on top of the NMI system.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Incorporate incremental fixes from Nick]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Add a simple NMI IPI system that handles concurrency and reentrancy.

The platform does not have to implement a true non-maskable interrupt,
the default is to simply use the debugger break IPI message. This has
now been co-opted for a general IPI message, and users (debugger and
crash) have been reimplemented on top of the NMI system.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Incorporate incremental fixes from Nick]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove all usages of NO_IRQ</title>
<updated>2016-09-20T10:57:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-06T11:53:24+00:00</published>
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NO_IRQ has been == 0 on powerpc for just over ten years (since commit
0ebfff1491ef ("[POWERPC] Add new interrupt mapping core and change
platforms to use it")). It's also 0 on most other arches.

Although it's fairly harmless, every now and then it causes confusion
when a driver is built on powerpc and another arch which doesn't define
NO_IRQ. There's at least 6 definitions of NO_IRQ in drivers/, at least
some of which are to work around that problem.

So we'd like to remove it. This is fairly trivial in the arch code, we
just convert:

    if (irq == NO_IRQ)	to	if (!irq)
    if (irq != NO_IRQ)	to	if (irq)
    irq = NO_IRQ;	to	irq = 0;
    return NO_IRQ;	to	return 0;

And a few other odd cases as well.

At least for now we keep the #define NO_IRQ, because there is driver
code that uses NO_IRQ and the fixes to remove those will go via other
trees.

Note we also change some occurrences in PPC sound drivers, drivers/ps3,
and drivers/macintosh.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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NO_IRQ has been == 0 on powerpc for just over ten years (since commit
0ebfff1491ef ("[POWERPC] Add new interrupt mapping core and change
platforms to use it")). It's also 0 on most other arches.

Although it's fairly harmless, every now and then it causes confusion
when a driver is built on powerpc and another arch which doesn't define
NO_IRQ. There's at least 6 definitions of NO_IRQ in drivers/, at least
some of which are to work around that problem.

So we'd like to remove it. This is fairly trivial in the arch code, we
just convert:

    if (irq == NO_IRQ)	to	if (!irq)
    if (irq != NO_IRQ)	to	if (irq)
    irq = NO_IRQ;	to	irq = 0;
    return NO_IRQ;	to	return 0;

And a few other odd cases as well.

At least for now we keep the #define NO_IRQ, because there is driver
code that uses NO_IRQ and the fixes to remove those will go via other
trees.

Note we also change some occurrences in PPC sound drivers, drivers/ps3,
and drivers/macintosh.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/cell: Drop unused iic_get_irq_host()</title>
<updated>2016-09-10T08:46:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Axtens</name>
<email>dja@axtens.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-06T05:32:39+00:00</published>
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Sparse checking revealed that it is no longer used. The last usage was
removed in commit 2e194583125b ("[POWERPC] Cell interrupt rework") in
2006.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Sparse checking revealed that it is no longer used. The last usage was
removed in commit 2e194583125b ("[POWERPC] Cell interrupt rework") in
2006.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Remove irq argument from irq flow handlers</title>
<updated>2015-09-16T13:47:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-14T08:42:37+00:00</published>
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Most interrupt flow handlers do not use the irq argument. Those few
which use it can retrieve the irq number from the irq descriptor.

Remove the argument.

Search and replace was done with coccinelle and some extra helper
scripts around it. Thanks to Julia for her help!

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Most interrupt flow handlers do not use the irq argument. Those few
which use it can retrieve the irq number from the irq descriptor.

Remove the argument.

Search and replace was done with coccinelle and some extra helper
scripts around it. Thanks to Julia for her help!

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/cell: Prepare irq handler for irq argument removal</title>
<updated>2015-09-14T08:30:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-14T08:17:00+00:00</published>
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The irq argument of most interrupt flow handlers is unused or merily
used instead of a local variable. The handlers which need the irq
argument can retrieve the irq number from the irq descriptor.
    
Search and update was done with coccinelle and the invaluable help of
Julia Lawall.
    
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
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The irq argument of most interrupt flow handlers is unused or merily
used instead of a local variable. The handlers which need the irq
argument can retrieve the irq number from the irq descriptor.
    
Search and update was done with coccinelle and the invaluable help of
Julia Lawall.
    
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq/irqdomain: Allow irq domain aliasing</title>
<updated>2015-07-29T22:14:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-28T13:46:08+00:00</published>
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It is not uncommon (at least with the ARM stuff) to have a piece
of hardware that implements different flavours of "interrupts".
A typical example of this is the GICv3 ITS, which implements
standard PCI/MSI support, but also some form of "generic MSI".

So far, the PCI/MSI domain is registered using the ITS device_node,
so that irq_find_host can return it. On the contrary, the raw MSI
domain is not registered with an device_node, making it impossible
to be looked up by another subsystem (obviously, using the same
device_node twice would only result in confusion, as it is not
defined which one irq_find_host would return).

A solution to this is to "type" domains that may be aliasing, and
to be able to lookup an device_node that matches a given type.
For this, we introduce irq_find_matching_host() as a superset
of irq_find_host:

struct irq_domain *irq_find_matching_host(struct device_node *node,
                                enum irq_domain_bus_token bus_token);

where bus_token is the "type" we want to match the domain against
(so far, only DOMAIN_BUS_ANY is defined). This result in some
moderately invasive changes on the PPC side (which is the only
user of the .match method).

This has otherwise no functionnal change.

Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Yijing Wang &lt;wangyijing@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ma Jun &lt;majun258@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Duc Dang &lt;dhdang@apm.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Cooper &lt;jason@lakedaemon.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438091186-10244-2-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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It is not uncommon (at least with the ARM stuff) to have a piece
of hardware that implements different flavours of "interrupts".
A typical example of this is the GICv3 ITS, which implements
standard PCI/MSI support, but also some form of "generic MSI".

So far, the PCI/MSI domain is registered using the ITS device_node,
so that irq_find_host can return it. On the contrary, the raw MSI
domain is not registered with an device_node, making it impossible
to be looked up by another subsystem (obviously, using the same
device_node twice would only result in confusion, as it is not
defined which one irq_find_host would return).

A solution to this is to "type" domains that may be aliasing, and
to be able to lookup an device_node that matches a given type.
For this, we introduce irq_find_matching_host() as a superset
of irq_find_host:

struct irq_domain *irq_find_matching_host(struct device_node *node,
                                enum irq_domain_bus_token bus_token);

where bus_token is the "type" we want to match the domain against
(so far, only DOMAIN_BUS_ANY is defined). This result in some
moderately invasive changes on the PPC side (which is the only
user of the .match method).

This has otherwise no functionnal change.

Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Yijing Wang &lt;wangyijing@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ma Jun &lt;majun258@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Duc Dang &lt;dhdang@apm.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Cooper &lt;jason@lakedaemon.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438091186-10244-2-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/cell: Fix crash in iic_setup_cpu() after per_cpu changes</title>
<updated>2015-04-10T10:02:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-03T03:11:53+00:00</published>
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The conversion from __get_cpu_var() to this_cpu_ptr() in iic_setup_cpu()
is wrong. It causes an oops at boot.

We need the per-cpu address of struct cpu_iic, not cpu_iic.regs-&gt;prio.

Sparse noticed this, because we pass a non-iomem pointer to out_be64(),
but we obviously don't check the sparse results often enough.

Fixes: 69111bac42f5 ("powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The conversion from __get_cpu_var() to this_cpu_ptr() in iic_setup_cpu()
is wrong. It causes an oops at boot.

We need the per-cpu address of struct cpu_iic, not cpu_iic.regs-&gt;prio.

Sparse noticed this, because we pass a non-iomem pointer to out_be64(),
but we obviously don't check the sparse results often enough.

Fixes: 69111bac42f5 ("powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses</title>
<updated>2014-11-03T01:12:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-21T20:23:25+00:00</published>
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This still has not been merged and now powerpc is the only arch that does
not have this change. Sorry about missing linuxppc-dev before.

V2-&gt;V2
  - Fix up to work against 3.18-rc1

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &amp;__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.

The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e.  using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &amp;__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(&amp;x, this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y), sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_inc(y)

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix build errors caused by set/or_softirq_pending(), and rework
      assignment in __set_breakpoint() to use memcpy().]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This still has not been merged and now powerpc is the only arch that does
not have this change. Sorry about missing linuxppc-dev before.

V2-&gt;V2
  - Fix up to work against 3.18-rc1

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &amp;__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.

The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e.  using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &amp;__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(&amp;x, this_cpu_ptr(&amp;y), sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_inc(y)

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix build errors caused by set/or_softirq_pending(), and rework
      assignment in __set_breakpoint() to use memcpy().]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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