linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT vs generic preemption code

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Date:   Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:57:09 +0200
From:   Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT vs generic preemption code

Commit c65eacbe290b ("sched/core: Allow putting thread_info into
task_struct") made struct thread_info a generic struct with only a
single flags member if THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT is selected.

This change however seems to be quite x86 centric, since at least the
generic preemption code (asm-generic/preempt.h) assumes that struct
thread_info also has a preempt_count member, which apparently was not
true for x86.

We could add a bit more ifdefs to solve this problem too, but it seems
to be much simpler to make struct thread_info arch specific
again. This also makes the conversion to THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT a
bit easier for architectures that have a couple of arch specific stuff
in their thread_info definition.

The arch specific stuff _could_ be moved to thread_struct. However
keeping them in thread_info makes it easier: accessing thread_info
members is simple, since it is at the beginning of the task_struct,
while the thread_struct is at the end. At least on s390 the offsets
needed to access members of the thread_struct (with task_struct as
base) are too large for various asm instructions.  This is not a
problem when keeping these members within thread_info.

The above is actually the same as the description of the first
patch. The second patch is a simple compile fix and the third one the
s390 conversion to THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT.

Heiko Carstens (3):
  sched/core,x86: make struct thread_info arch specific again
  sched/preempt: include asm/current.h
  s390: move thread_info into task_struct

 arch/s390/Kconfig                   |  1 +
 arch/s390/include/asm/lowcore.h     |  2 +-
 arch/s390/include/asm/thread_info.h | 11 --------
 arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c      | 17 +++++--------
 arch/s390/kernel/entry.S            | 51 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 arch/s390/kernel/head64.S           |  5 ++--
 arch/s390/kernel/setup.c            |  3 +--
 arch/s390/kernel/smp.c              |  1 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h  |  9 +++++++
 include/asm-generic/preempt.h       |  1 +
 include/linux/thread_info.h         | 11 --------
 11 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)

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