[PATCH v2 20/20] arm64: percpu: Remove _pcp_protect*() wrappers
Mark Rutland <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 18:05:03 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel.stable,gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Now that all this_cpu_*() operations are preemptible, there are no users of _pcp_protect() or _pcp_protect_return(). Remove them both, along with the associated comment regarding preemption. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> Cc: Ada Couprie Diaz <[email protected]> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Cc: James Morse <[email protected]> Cc: Jinjie Ruan <[email protected]> Cc: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Cc: Yang Shi <[email protected]> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h | 27 --------------------------- 1 file changed, 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h index 8087ed6e12241..d868a88960123 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h @@ -368,33 +368,6 @@ PERCPU_CMPXCHG_OP(x, , 64) #undef PERCPU_XCHG_OP #undef PERCPU_CMPXCHG_OP -/* - * It would be nice to avoid the conditional call into the scheduler when - * re-enabling preemption for preemptible kernels, but doing that in a way - * which builds inside a module would mean messing directly with the preempt - * count. If you do this, peterz and tglx will hunt you down. - * - * Not to mention it'll break the actual preemption model for missing a - * preemption point when TIF_NEED_RESCHED gets set while preemption is - * disabled. - */ - -#define _pcp_protect(op, pcp, ...) \ -({ \ - preempt_disable_notrace(); \ - op(raw_cpu_ptr(&(pcp)), __VA_ARGS__); \ - preempt_enable_notrace(); \ -}) - -#define _pcp_protect_return(op, pcp, args...) \ -({ \ - typeof(pcp) __retval; \ - preempt_disable_notrace(); \ - __retval = (typeof(pcp))op(raw_cpu_ptr(&(pcp)), ##args); \ - preempt_enable_notrace(); \ - __retval; \ -}) - #define _pcp_wrap(op, pcp, ...) \ ({ \ op(&(pcp), __VA_ARGS__); \ -- 2.30.2