Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: implement optimized percpu variable access

From: [email-masked] (Tony Lindgren)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:11:16 -0800

* Rob Herring <[email-masked]> [121129 06:55]:
> From: Rob Herring <[email-masked]>
> 
> Use the previously unused TPIDRPRW register to store percpu offsets.
> TPIDRPRW is only accessible in PL1, so it can only be used in the kernel.
> 
> This replaces 2 loads with a mrc instruction for each percpu variable
> access. With hackbench, the performance improvement is 1.4% on Cortex-A9
> (highbank). Taking an average of 30 runs of "hackbench -l 1000" yields:
> 
> Before: 6.2191
> After: 6.1348
> 
> Will Deacon reported similar delta on v6 with 11MPCore.
> 
> The asm "memory" constraints are needed here to ensure the percpu offset
> gets reloaded. Testing by Will found that this would not happen in
> __schedule() which is a bit of a special case as preemption is disabled
> but the execution can move cores.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <[email-masked]>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email-masked]>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Add asm "memory" constraint
> - Only enable on v6K and v7 and avoid enabling for v6 SMP_ON_UP

Thanks, seems to still boot on omap2 with omap2plus_defconfig.
Once the other comments are sorted out:

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <[email-masked]>