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x86, bts: remove recursion from get_context
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Impact: cleanup

Optimistically allocate a DS context. It is extremely unlikely that
one already existed. This simplifies the code a lot.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Markus Metzger authored and Ingo Molnar committed Dec 16, 2008
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58 changes: 25 additions & 33 deletions arch/x86/kernel/ds.c
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Expand Up @@ -232,53 +232,45 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct ds_context *, system_context_array);

#define system_context per_cpu(system_context_array, smp_processor_id())

static struct ds_context *ds_get_context(struct task_struct *task)

static inline struct ds_context *ds_get_context(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct ds_context **p_context =
(task ? &task->thread.ds_ctx : &system_context);
struct ds_context *context = *p_context;
struct ds_context *context = NULL;
struct ds_context *new_context = NULL;
unsigned long irq;

if (!context) {
context = kzalloc(sizeof(*context), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!context)
return NULL;

spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_lock, irq);

if (*p_context) {
kfree(context);
/* Chances are small that we already have a context. */
new_context = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_context), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_context)
return NULL;

context = *p_context;
} else {
*p_context = context;
spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_lock, irq);

context->this = p_context;
context->task = task;
context = *p_context;
if (!context) {
context = new_context;

if (task)
set_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_DS_AREA_MSR);
context->this = p_context;
context->task = task;
context->count = 0;

if (!task || (task == current))
wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_DS_AREA,
(unsigned long)context->ds);
}
if (task)
set_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_DS_AREA_MSR);

context->count++;
if (!task || (task == current))
wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_DS_AREA, (unsigned long)context->ds);

spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_lock, irq);
} else {
spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_lock, irq);
*p_context = context;
}

context = *p_context;
if (context)
context->count++;
context->count++;

spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_lock, irq);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_lock, irq);

if (!context)
context = ds_get_context(task);
}
if (context != new_context)
kfree(new_context);

return context;
}
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