x86: A fast way to check capabilities of the current cpu
authorChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:50:10 +0000 (12:50 +0100)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:18:30 +0000 (10:18 +0200)
commit349c004e3d31fda23ad225b61861be38047fff16
tree1600c1356f4b992d07e191492054619d03e7c9f7
parent89078d572eb9ce8d4c04264b8b0ba86de0d74c8f
x86: A fast way to check capabilities of the current cpu

Add this_cpu_has() which determines if the current cpu has a certain
ability using a segment prefix and a bit test operation.

For that we need to add bit operations to x86s percpu.h.

Many uses of cpu_has use a pointer passed to a function to determine
the current flags. That is no longer necessary after this patch.

However, this patch only converts the straightforward cases where
cpu_has is used with this_cpu_ptr. The rest is work for later.

-tj: Rolled up patch to add x86_ prefix and use percpu_read() instead
     of percpu_read_stable().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
arch/x86/kernel/process.c
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c