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| author | Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> | 2012-07-04 20:37:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2012-07-11 14:18:40 +1000 |
| commit | 18ad51dd342a7eb09dbcd059d0b451b616d4dafc (patch) | |
| tree | 94809605669eb3b5e4e049501958a2fa93ae2de7 /arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | |
| parent | e6a74c6ea331b79c86e1898c504790b3dadc591d (diff) | |
powerpc: Add VDSO version of getcpu
We have a request for a fast method of getting CPU and NUMA node IDs
from userspace. This patch implements a getcpu VDSO function,
similar to x86.
Ben suggested we use SPRG3 which is userspace readable. SPRG3 can be
modified by a KVM guest, so we save the SPRG3 value in the paca and
restore it when transitioning from the guest to the host.
I have a glibc patch that implements sched_getcpu on top of this.
Testing on a POWER7:
baseline: 538 cycles
vdso: 30 cycles
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c index 52c7ad78242..85b05c463fa 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c @@ -533,6 +533,7 @@ int main(void) HSTATE_FIELD(HSTATE_VMHANDLER, vmhandler); HSTATE_FIELD(HSTATE_SCRATCH0, scratch0); HSTATE_FIELD(HSTATE_SCRATCH1, scratch1); + HSTATE_FIELD(HSTATE_SPRG3, sprg3); HSTATE_FIELD(HSTATE_IN_GUEST, in_guest); HSTATE_FIELD(HSTATE_RESTORE_HID5, restore_hid5); HSTATE_FIELD(HSTATE_NAPPING, napping); |