File 56ebc12b-x86-move-cached-CR4-value-to-struct-cpu_info.patch of Package xen.2959
References: bsc#949889
# Commit 5d93f1d8ca7b62e85c8b98ed9c45b6cef89d17b8
# Date 2016-03-18 09:49:47 +0100
# Author Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
# Committer Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
x86: move cached CR4 value to struct cpu_info
This not only eases using the cached value in assembly code, but also
improves the generated code resulting from such reads in C.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
--- a/xen/arch/x86/domain.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/domain.c
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@
#include <asm/psr.h>
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vcpu *, curr_vcpu);
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, cr4);
static void default_idle(void);
void (*pm_idle) (void) __read_mostly = default_idle;
--- a/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ void __init noreturn __start_xen(unsigne
if ( cpu_has_efer )
rdmsrl(MSR_EFER, this_cpu(efer));
- asm volatile ( "mov %%cr4,%0" : "=r" (this_cpu(cr4)) );
+ asm volatile ( "mov %%cr4,%0" : "=r" (get_cpu_info()->cr4) );
/* We initialise the serial devices very early so we can get debugging. */
ns16550.io_base = 0x3f8;
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/current.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/current.h
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ struct cpu_info {
unsigned int processor_id;
struct vcpu *current_vcpu;
unsigned long per_cpu_offset;
+ unsigned long cr4;
/* get_stack_bottom() must be 16-byte aligned */
- unsigned long __pad_for_stack_bottom;
};
static inline struct cpu_info *get_cpu_info(void)
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/processor.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/processor.h
@@ -312,16 +312,14 @@ static inline unsigned long read_cr2(voi
return cr2;
}
-DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, cr4);
-
static inline unsigned long read_cr4(void)
{
- return this_cpu(cr4);
+ return get_cpu_info()->cr4;
}
static inline void write_cr4(unsigned long val)
{
- this_cpu(cr4) = val;
+ get_cpu_info()->cr4 = val;
asm volatile ( "mov %0,%%cr4" : : "r" (val) );
}