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Commit 97b67ae5 authored by Jan Beulich's avatar Jan Beulich Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86-64: Use RIP-relative addressing for most per-CPU accesses



Observing that per-CPU data (in the SMP case) is reachable by
exploiting 64-bit address wraparound (building on the default kernel
load address being at 16Mb), the one byte shorter RIP-relative
addressing form can be used for most per-CPU accesses. The one
exception are the "stable" reads, where the use of the "P" operand
modifier prevents the compiler from using RIP-relative addressing, but
is unavoidable due to the use of the "p" constraint (side note: with
gcc 4.9.x the intended effect of this isn't being achieved anymore,
see gcc bug 63637).

With the dependency on the minimum kernel load address, arbitrarily
low values for CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START are now no longer possible. A
link time assertion is being added, directing to the need to increase
that value when it triggers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5458A1780200007800044A9D@mail.emea.novell.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 6d24c5f7
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