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Randy Dunlap 3101673b65 [PATCH] i386: avoid gcc extension
setcc() in math-emu is written as a gcc extension statement expression
macro that returns a value.  However, it's not used that way and it's not
needed like that, so just make it a inline function so that we
don't use an extension when it's not needed.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-13 13:26:24 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 464d1a78fb [PATCH] i386: Convert i386 PDA code to use %fs
Convert the PDA code to use %fs rather than %gs as the segment for
per-processor data.  This is because some processors show a small but
measurable performance gain for reloading a NULL segment selector (as %fs
generally is in user-space) versus a non-NULL one (as %gs generally is).

On modern processors the difference is very small, perhaps undetectable.
Some old AMD "K6 3D+" processors are noticably slower when %fs is used
rather than %gs; I have no idea why this might be, but I think they're
sufficiently rare that it doesn't matter much.

This patch also fixes the math emulator, which had not been adjusted to
match the changed struct pt_regs.

[frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com: fixit with gdb]
[mingo@elte.hu: Fix KVM too]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2007-02-13 13:26:20 +01:00
Randy Dunlap d606f88fa5 [PATCH] i386: fix must_checks
Fix __must_check warnings in i386/math-emu.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:00 +01:00
Zachary Amsden 4d37e7e3fd [PATCH] i386: inline assembler: cleanup and encapsulate descriptor and task register management
i386 inline assembler cleanup.

This change encapsulates descriptor and task register management.  Also,
it is possible to improve assembler generation in two cases; savesegment
may store the value in a register instead of a memory location, which
allows GCC to optimize stack variables into registers, and MOV MEM, SEG
is always a 16-bit write to memory, making the casting in math-emu
unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00