__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &__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 :

#define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&(var)))

__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 = &__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&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(&x, this_cpu_ptr(&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: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

nmi_cpu_busy() is a SMP function call that just makes sure that all of the
cpus are spinning using cpu cycles while the NMI test runs.

It does not need to disable IRQs because we just care about NMIs executing
which will even with 'normal' IRQs disabled.

It is not legal to enable hard IRQs in a SMP cross call, in fact this bug
triggers the BUG check in irq_work_run_list():

	BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());

Because now irq_work_run() is invoked from the tail of
generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Bring this code in line with the perf based generic NMI watchdog
in kernel/watchdog.c (which we should convert over to at some
point).

In particular, don't do anything super fancy when the watchdog
triggers, and specifically don't do a do_exit() which only makes
things worse.

Either panic(), or WARN().  The latter of which will do all of
the actions such as give us a stack backtrace.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We assumed PCR_PIC_PRIV can always be used to disable it, but that
won't be true for SPARC-T4.

This allows us also to get rid of some messy defines used in only
one location.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

And, like for the PCR, allow indexing of different PIC register
numbers.

This also removes all of the non-__KERNEL__ bits from asm/perfctr.h,
nothing kernel side should include it any more.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

SPARC-T4 and later have multiple PCR registers, one for each
PIC counter.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org

Many of the core sparc kernel files are not modules, but just
including module.h for exporting symbols.  Now these files can
use the lighter footprint export.h for this role.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

The perf hardware pmu got initialized at various points in the boot,
some before early_initcall() some after (notably arch_initcall).

The problem is that the NMI lockup detector is ran from early_initcall()
and expects the hardware pmu to be present.

Sanitize this by moving all architecture hardware pmu implementations to
initialize at early_initcall() and move the lockup detector to an explicit
initcall right after that.

Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: davem <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290707759.2145.119.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>