On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:47:16AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

That way we'd end up with something like:

asm("
push %rdi;
movslq %edi, %rdi;
movq __per_cpu_offset(,%rdi,8), %rax;
cmpb $0, %[offset](%rax);
setne %al;
pop %rdi;
" : : [offset] "i" (((unsigned long)&steal_time) + offsetof(struct steal_time, preempted)));

And if we could get rid of the sign extend on edi we could avoid all the
push-pop nonsense, but I'm not sure I see how to do that (then again,
this asm foo isn't my strongest point).

Maybe:

movsql %edi, %rax;
movq __per_cpu_offset(,%rax,8), %rax;
cmpb $0, %[offset](%rax);
setne %al;

?