Thread (29 messages) 29 messages, 7 authors, 2016-04-07

[RFC PATCH v6 5/5] Thread-local ABI: wire up x86 32/64 system call

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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: 2016-04-04 17:03:37
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Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit), x86 entry code · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, Andy Lutomirski

Wire up the thread-local ABI system call on x86 32/64.

This provides an ABI improving the speed of a getcpu operation
on x86 by removing the need to perform a function call, "lsl"
instruction, or system call on the fast path.

The thread-local ABI can be extended to add features in the future.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Russell King <redacted>
CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
CC: Will Deacon <redacted>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
CC: Paul Turner <redacted>
CC: Andrew Hunter <redacted>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
CC: Andi Kleen <redacted>
CC: Dave Watson <redacted>
CC: Chris Lameter <redacted>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Ben Maurer <redacted>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <redacted>
CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Boqun Feng <redacted>
CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 +
 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
index cb713df..e31d5a5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
@@ -384,3 +384,4 @@
 375	i386	membarrier		sys_membarrier
 376	i386	mlock2			sys_mlock2
 377	i386	copy_file_range		sys_copy_file_range
+378	i386	thread_local_abi	sys_thread_local_abi
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
index dc1040a..6aaddb4b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@
 324	common	membarrier		sys_membarrier
 325	common	mlock2			sys_mlock2
 326	common	copy_file_range		sys_copy_file_range
+326	common	thread_local_abi	sys_thread_local_abi
 
 #
 # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact
-- 
2.1.4
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