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<title>powerpc/xics: Work around limitations of OPAL XICS priority handling</title>
<updated>2017-03-18T11:14:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Balbir Singh</name>
<email>bsingharora@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-03T00:58:44+00:00</published>
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commit a69e2fb70350a66f91175cd2625f1e8215c5b6e9 upstream.

The CPPR (Current Processor Priority Register) of a XICS interrupt
presentation controller contains a value N, such that only interrupts
with a priority "more favoured" than N will be received by the CPU,
where "more favoured" means "less than". So if the CPPR has the value 5
then only interrupts with a priority of 0-4 inclusive will be received.

In theory the CPPR can support a value of 0 to 255 inclusive.
In practice Linux only uses values of 0, 4, 5 and 0xff. Setting the CPPR
to 0 rejects all interrupts, setting it to 0xff allows all interrupts.
The values 4 and 5 are used to differentiate IPIs from external
interrupts. Setting the CPPR to 5 allows IPIs to be received but not
external interrupts.

The CPPR emulation in the OPAL XICS implementation only directly
supports priorities 0 and 0xff. All other priorities are considered
equivalent, and mapped to a single priority value internally. This means
when using icp-opal we can not allow IPIs but not externals.

This breaks Linux's use of priority values when a CPU is hot unplugged.
After migrating IRQs away from the CPU that is being offlined, we set
the priority to 5, meaning we still want the offline CPU to receive
IPIs. But the effect of the OPAL XICS emulation's use of a single
priority value is that all interrupts are rejected by the CPU. With the
CPU offline, and not receiving IPIs, we may not be able to wake it up to
bring it back online.

The first part of the fix is in icp_opal_set_cpu_priority(). CPPR values
of 0 to 4 inclusive will correctly cause all interrupts to be rejected,
so we pass those CPPR values through to OPAL. However if we are called
with a CPPR of 5 or greater, the caller is expecting to be able to allow
IPIs but not external interrupts. We know this doesn't work, so instead
of rejecting all interrupts we choose the opposite which is to allow all
interrupts. This is still not correct behaviour, but we know for the
only existing caller (xics_migrate_irqs_away()), that it is the better
option.

The other part of the fix is in xics_migrate_irqs_away(). Instead of
setting priority (CPPR) to 0, and then back to 5 before migrating IRQs,
we migrate the IRQs before setting the priority back to 5. This should
have no effect on an ICP backend with a working set_priority(), and on
icp-opal it means we will keep all interrupts blocked until after we've
finished doing the IRQ migration. Additionally we wait for 5ms after
doing the migration to make sure there are no IRQs in flight.

Fixes: d74361881f0d ("powerpc/xics: Add ICP OPAL backend")
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reported-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan &lt;svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan &lt;svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Rewrote comments and change log, change delay to 5ms]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a69e2fb70350a66f91175cd2625f1e8215c5b6e9 upstream.

The CPPR (Current Processor Priority Register) of a XICS interrupt
presentation controller contains a value N, such that only interrupts
with a priority "more favoured" than N will be received by the CPU,
where "more favoured" means "less than". So if the CPPR has the value 5
then only interrupts with a priority of 0-4 inclusive will be received.

In theory the CPPR can support a value of 0 to 255 inclusive.
In practice Linux only uses values of 0, 4, 5 and 0xff. Setting the CPPR
to 0 rejects all interrupts, setting it to 0xff allows all interrupts.
The values 4 and 5 are used to differentiate IPIs from external
interrupts. Setting the CPPR to 5 allows IPIs to be received but not
external interrupts.

The CPPR emulation in the OPAL XICS implementation only directly
supports priorities 0 and 0xff. All other priorities are considered
equivalent, and mapped to a single priority value internally. This means
when using icp-opal we can not allow IPIs but not externals.

This breaks Linux's use of priority values when a CPU is hot unplugged.
After migrating IRQs away from the CPU that is being offlined, we set
the priority to 5, meaning we still want the offline CPU to receive
IPIs. But the effect of the OPAL XICS emulation's use of a single
priority value is that all interrupts are rejected by the CPU. With the
CPU offline, and not receiving IPIs, we may not be able to wake it up to
bring it back online.

The first part of the fix is in icp_opal_set_cpu_priority(). CPPR values
of 0 to 4 inclusive will correctly cause all interrupts to be rejected,
so we pass those CPPR values through to OPAL. However if we are called
with a CPPR of 5 or greater, the caller is expecting to be able to allow
IPIs but not external interrupts. We know this doesn't work, so instead
of rejecting all interrupts we choose the opposite which is to allow all
interrupts. This is still not correct behaviour, but we know for the
only existing caller (xics_migrate_irqs_away()), that it is the better
option.

The other part of the fix is in xics_migrate_irqs_away(). Instead of
setting priority (CPPR) to 0, and then back to 5 before migrating IRQs,
we migrate the IRQs before setting the priority back to 5. This should
have no effect on an ICP backend with a working set_priority(), and on
icp-opal it means we will keep all interrupts blocked until after we've
finished doing the IRQ migration. Additionally we wait for 5ms after
doing the migration to make sure there are no IRQs in flight.

Fixes: d74361881f0d ("powerpc/xics: Add ICP OPAL backend")
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reported-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan &lt;svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan &lt;svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Rewrote comments and change log, change delay to 5ms]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<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;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/xics: Properly set Edge/Level type and enable resend</title>
<updated>2016-08-09T04:50:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-02T02:39:43+00:00</published>
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This sets the type of the interrupt appropriately. We set it as follow:

 - If not mapped from the device-tree, we use edge. This is the case
of the virtual interrupts and PCI MSIs for example.

 - If mapped from the device-tree and #interrupt-cells is 2 (PAPR
compliant), we use the second cell to set the appropriate type

 - If mapped from the device-tree and #interrupt-cells is 1 (current
OPAL on P8 does that), we assume level sensitive since those are
typically going to be the PSI LSIs which are level sensitive.

Additionally, we mark the interrupts requested via the opal_interrupts
property all level. This is a bit fishy but the best we can do until we
fix OPAL to properly expose them with a complete descriptor. It is also
correct for the current HW anyway as OPAL interrupts are currently PCI
error and PSI interrupts which are level.

Finally now that edge interrupts are properly identified, we can enable
CONFIG_HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND which will make the core re-send them if
they occur while masked, which some drivers rely upon.

This fixes issues with lost interrupts on some Mellanox adapters.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This sets the type of the interrupt appropriately. We set it as follow:

 - If not mapped from the device-tree, we use edge. This is the case
of the virtual interrupts and PCI MSIs for example.

 - If mapped from the device-tree and #interrupt-cells is 2 (PAPR
compliant), we use the second cell to set the appropriate type

 - If mapped from the device-tree and #interrupt-cells is 1 (current
OPAL on P8 does that), we assume level sensitive since those are
typically going to be the PSI LSIs which are level sensitive.

Additionally, we mark the interrupts requested via the opal_interrupts
property all level. This is a bit fishy but the best we can do until we
fix OPAL to properly expose them with a complete descriptor. It is also
correct for the current HW anyway as OPAL interrupts are currently PCI
error and PSI interrupts which are level.

Finally now that edge interrupts are properly identified, we can enable
CONFIG_HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND which will make the core re-send them if
they occur while masked, which some drivers rely upon.

This fixes issues with lost interrupts on some Mellanox adapters.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/xics: Add ICP OPAL backend</title>
<updated>2016-07-17T06:42:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-08T06:37:08+00:00</published>
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This adds a new XICS backend that uses OPAL calls, which can be
used when we don't have native support for the platform interrupt
controller.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This adds a new XICS backend that uses OPAL calls, which can be
used when we don't have native support for the platform interrupt
controller.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</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;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use irq_desc_get_xxx() to avoid redundant lookup of irq_desc</title>
<updated>2015-06-02T06:54:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiang Liu</name>
<email>jiang.liu@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-20T09:59:52+00:00</published>
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Use irq_desc_get_xxx() to avoid redundant lookup of irq_desc while we
already have a pointer to corresponding irq_desc.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Use irq_desc_get_xxx() to avoid redundant lookup of irq_desc while we
already have a pointer to corresponding irq_desc.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Constify irq_domain_ops</title>
<updated>2015-05-11T06:58:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krzysztof Kozlowski</name>
<email>k.kozlowski.k@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-27T12:48:47+00:00</published>
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The irq_domain_ops are not modified by the driver and the irqdomain core
code accepts pointer to a const data.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski.k@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The irq_domain_ops are not modified by the driver and the irqdomain core
code accepts pointer to a const data.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski.k@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Drop return value of smp_ops-&gt;probe()</title>
<updated>2015-04-10T10:02:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-04T08:28:50+00:00</published>
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smp_ops-&gt;probe() is currently supposed to return the number of cpus in
the system.

The last actual usage of the value was removed in May 2007 in e147ec8f1808
"[POWERPC] Simplify smp_space_timers". We still passed the value around
until June 2010 when even that was finally removed in c1aa687d499a
"powerpc: Clean up obsolete code relating to decrementer and timebase".

So drop that requirement, probe() now returns void, and update all
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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smp_ops-&gt;probe() is currently supposed to return the number of cpus in
the system.

The last actual usage of the value was removed in May 2007 in e147ec8f1808
"[POWERPC] Simplify smp_space_timers". We still passed the value around
until June 2010 when even that was finally removed in c1aa687d499a
"powerpc: Clean up obsolete code relating to decrementer and timebase".

So drop that requirement, probe() now returns void, and update all
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Replace cpumask_weight(cpu_possible_mask) with num_possible_cpus()</title>
<updated>2015-01-23T03:02:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emil Medve</name>
<email>Emilian.Medve@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-21T22:21:14+00:00</published>
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num_possible_cpus() is just a shorthand for it.

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve &lt;Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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num_possible_cpus() is just a shorthand for it.

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve &lt;Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</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>
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<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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