Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] x86: Cleanup and simplify cpu-specific data

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Jan 15 2017 - 14:41:50 EST


Sorry for top-posting but I'm reviving an old thread so I'm excused :-)

So looking at those in my mbox, they look like nice cleanup and are not
upstream. What's the story, was there a "we don't want them because ..."
argument somewhere or what's up?

If not, we probably should redo them and get them at least looked at in
detail.

Hmmm?

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:33:25PM -0300, Kevin Winchester wrote:
> Various per-cpu fields are define in arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c that are
> basically equivalent to the cpu-specific data in struct cpuinfo_x86.
> By moving these fields into the structure, a number of codepaths can be
> simplified since they no longer need to care about those fields not
> existing on !SMP builds.
>
> The size effects on allno (UP) and allyes (MAX_SMP) kernels are as
> follows:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 1369227 181536 1399180 2949943 2d0337 vmlinux.i386.allno
> 1370216 181600 1399012 2950828 2d06ac vmlinux.i386.allno.after
> 1608231 310968 505088 2424287 24fddf vmlinux.x86_64.allno
> 1609232 311032 504896 2425160 250148 vmlinux.x86_64.allno.after
> 97643748 6891747 34668544 139204039 84c15c7 vmlinux.i386.allyes
> 97643582 6892011 34668544 139204137 84c1629 vmlinux.i386.allyes.after
> 85869519 13567071 44511232 143947822 894782e vmlinux.x86_64.allyes
> 85869134 13568607 44511232 143948973 8947cad vmlinux.x86_64.allyes.after
>
> As can be seen, the kernels get slighly larger, but the code reduction/
> simplification should be enough to compensate for it.
>
> Changes in v6:
> - Rebased series against mainline 3.4-rc5
>
> Changes in v5:
> - Reduced the number of files affected in the patchset by keeping helper
> functions in arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h
> - Rebased to latest tip/master
>
> Kevin Winchester (5):
> x86: Move per cpu cpu_llc_shared_map to a field in struct cpuinfo_x86
> x86: Move per cpu cpu_llc_id to a field in struct cpuinfo_x86
> x86: Move per cpu cpu_sibling_map to a field in struct cpuinfo_x86
> x86: Move per cpu cpu_core_map to a field in struct cpuinfo_x86
> x86: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_SMP sections by moving smp_num_siblings
> into common.c
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event_p4.h | 14 +++---------
> arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 10 +++++++++
> arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h | 17 ++++----------
> arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h | 8 +++----
> arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_numachip.c | 3 +--
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 19 +++++-----------
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 5 +++++
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c | 11 ++--------
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 2 --
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c | 4 ++--
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c | 5 ++---
> arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 5 ++---
> arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 39 +++++++--------------------------
> arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c | 6 -----
> arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_p4.c | 11 +---------
> arch/x86/xen/smp.c | 6 -----
> drivers/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c | 2 --
> drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c | 7 ------
> drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-ich.c | 2 --
> drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 4 ----
> 20 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 132 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.7.10
>
>

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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