With the introduction of the context switch preempt_count invariant, and the demise of PREEMPT_ACTIVE, its pointless to save/restore the per-cpu preemption count, it must always be 2. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h | 6 +----- arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 -- arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 8 -------- arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 8 -------- 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 23 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h @@ -30,13 +30,9 @@ static __always_inline void preempt_coun /* * must be macros to avoid header recursion hell */ -#define init_task_preempt_count(p) do { \ - task_thread_info(p)->saved_preempt_count = \ - 2*PREEMPT_DISABLE_OFFSET + PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED; \ -} while (0) +#define init_task_preempt_count(p) do { } while (0) #define init_idle_preempt_count(p, cpu) do { \ - task_thread_info(p)->saved_preempt_count = PREEMPT_ENABLED; \ per_cpu(__preempt_count, (cpu)) = PREEMPT_ENABLED; \ } while (0) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h @@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ struct thread_info { __u32 flags; /* low level flags */ __u32 status; /* thread synchronous flags */ __u32 cpu; /* current CPU */ - int saved_preempt_count; mm_segment_t addr_limit; void __user *sysenter_return; unsigned int sig_on_uaccess_error:1; @@ -69,7 +68,6 @@ struct thread_info { .task = &tsk, \ .flags = 0, \ .cpu = 0, \ - .saved_preempt_count = INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT, \ .addr_limit = KERNEL_DS, \ } --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c @@ -280,14 +280,6 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, set_iopl_mask(next->iopl); /* - * If it were not for PREEMPT_ACTIVE we could guarantee that the - * preempt_count of all tasks was equal here and this would not be - * needed. - */ - task_thread_info(prev_p)->saved_preempt_count = this_cpu_read(__preempt_count); - this_cpu_write(__preempt_count, task_thread_info(next_p)->saved_preempt_count); - - /* * Now maybe handle debug registers and/or IO bitmaps */ if (unlikely(task_thread_info(prev_p)->flags & _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_PREV || --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -401,14 +401,6 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, */ this_cpu_write(current_task, next_p); - /* - * If it were not for PREEMPT_ACTIVE we could guarantee that the - * preempt_count of all tasks was equal here and this would not be - * needed. - */ - task_thread_info(prev_p)->saved_preempt_count = this_cpu_read(__preempt_count); - this_cpu_write(__preempt_count, task_thread_info(next_p)->saved_preempt_count); - /* Reload esp0 and ss1. This changes current_thread_info(). */ load_sp0(tss, next); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/