Re: [RFC/PATCH] Make powerpc64 use __thread for per-cpu variables

[Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>]

I wrote:

> Hmmm...  Would it be sufficient to use a RELOC_HIDE in __get_cpu_var,
> like this?
> 
> #define __get_cpu_var(x)	(*(RELOC_HIDE(&per_cpu__##x, 0)))

But that won't work because the compiler can still cache &per_cpu__x.
I guess I have to do this:

#define __get_cpu_var(var, cpu)					\
	(*(__typeof__(&per_cpu__##var))({			\
		void *__ptr;					\
		asm("addi %0,13,per_cpu__"#var"@tprel"		\
		    : "=r" (__ptr));				\
		__ptr;						\
	}))

That means we lose the possible optimization of combining the addi
into a following load or store.  Bah.  However, I guess it's still
better than what we do at the moment.

Paul.
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