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| author |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-08-03 14:08:48 +0900 |
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| committer |   Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2009-08-04 01:28:52 +0900 |
| commit | ed8d9adf357ec331603fa1049510399812cea7e5 (patch) | |
| tree | cc6eae948bf4652b9d87aee796ae78cc6287ac36 /include/linux/percpu-defs.h | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md (diff) | |
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x86, percpu: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accesses
This is very useful for some common things like 'get_current()' and
'get_thread_info()', which can be used multiple times in a function, and
where the result is cacheable.
tj: Added the magical undocumented "P" modifier to UP __percpu_arg()
to force gcc to dereference the pointer value passed in via the
"p" input constraint. Without this, percpu_read_stable() returns
the address of the percpu variable. Also added comment explaining
the difference between percpu_read() and percpu_read_stable().
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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