linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 15/16] percpu: Remove __per_cpu

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:52:32 -0400
From: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>,
	David.Laight@...lab.com,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 15/16] percpu: Remove __per_cpu_load

__per_cpu_load is now always equal to __per_cpu_start.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/sections.h    | 2 +-
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 -
 mm/percpu.c                       | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
index c768de6f19a9..0755bc39b0d8 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ extern char __init_begin[], __init_end[];
 extern char _sinittext[], _einittext[];
 extern char __start_ro_after_init[], __end_ro_after_init[];
 extern char _end[];
-extern char __per_cpu_load[], __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[];
+extern char __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[];
 extern char __kprobes_text_start[], __kprobes_text_end[];
 extern char __entry_text_start[], __entry_text_end[];
 extern char __start_rodata[], __end_rodata[];
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 430b2ed2aa58..a67452ea94d3 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -1052,7 +1052,6 @@
 #define PERCPU_SECTION(cacheline)					\
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);						\
 	.data..percpu	: AT(ADDR(.data..percpu) - LOAD_OFFSET) {	\
-		__per_cpu_load = .;					\
 		PERCPU_INPUT(cacheline)					\
 	}
 
diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index 4e11fc1e6def..a584b5a78f72 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -3153,7 +3153,7 @@ int __init pcpu_embed_first_chunk(size_t reserved_size, size_t dyn_size,
 				continue;
 			}
 			/* copy and return the unused part */
-			memcpy(ptr, __per_cpu_load, ai->static_size);
+			memcpy(ptr, __per_cpu_start, ai->static_size);
 			pcpu_fc_free(ptr + size_sum, ai->unit_size - size_sum);
 		}
 	}
@@ -3336,7 +3336,7 @@ int __init pcpu_page_first_chunk(size_t reserved_size, pcpu_fc_cpu_to_node_fn_t
 		flush_cache_vmap_early(unit_addr, unit_addr + ai->unit_size);
 
 		/* copy static data */
-		memcpy((void *)unit_addr, __per_cpu_load, ai->static_size);
+		memcpy((void *)unit_addr, __per_cpu_start, ai->static_size);
 	}
 
 	/* we're ready, commit */
-- 
2.44.0