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Commit 9a462b9e authored by Nadav Amit's avatar Nadav Amit Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/percpu: Use compiler segment prefix qualifier



Using a segment prefix qualifier is cleaner than using a segment prefix
in the inline assembly, and provides the compiler with more information,
telling it that __seg_gs:[addr] is different than [addr] when it
analyzes data dependencies. It also enables various optimizations that
will be implemented in the next patches.

Use segment prefix qualifiers when they are supported. Unfortunately,
gcc does not provide a way to remove segment qualifiers, which is needed
to use typeof() to create local instances of the per-CPU variable. For
this reason, do not use the segment qualifier for per-CPU variables, and
do casting using the segment qualifier instead.

Uros: Improve compiler support detection and update the patch
to the current mainline.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarUros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004145137.86537-4-ubizjak@gmail.com
parent 1ca3683c
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