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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2015-09-28 18:11:18 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-10-06 17:08:18 +0200
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sched/core, sched/x86: Kill thread_info::saved_preempt_count
With the introduction of the context switch preempt_count invariant, and the demise of PREEMPT_ACTIVE, its pointless to save/restore the per-cpu preemption count, it must always be 2. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c8
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
index 737527b40e5b..9f950917528b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
@@ -280,14 +280,6 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
set_iopl_mask(next->iopl);
/*
- * If it were not for PREEMPT_ACTIVE we could guarantee that the
- * preempt_count of all tasks was equal here and this would not be
- * needed.
- */
- task_thread_info(prev_p)->saved_preempt_count = this_cpu_read(__preempt_count);
- this_cpu_write(__preempt_count, task_thread_info(next_p)->saved_preempt_count);
-
- /*
* Now maybe handle debug registers and/or IO bitmaps
*/
if (unlikely(task_thread_info(prev_p)->flags & _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_PREV ||
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