sched/core, x86: Make struct thread_info arch specific again

heicarst · Ingo Molnar · commit c8061485a0d7 · 2016-10-20T13:27:47.000+02:00
The following commit: c65eacb ("sched/core: Allow putting thread_info into task_struct") ... made 'struct thread_info' a generic struct with only a single ::flags member, if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT=y is selected. This change however seems to be quite x86 centric, since at least the generic preemption code (asm-generic/preempt.h) assumes that struct thread_info also has a preempt_count member, which apparently was not true for x86. We could add a bit more #ifdefs to solve this problem too, but it seems to be much simpler to make struct thread_info arch specific again. This also makes the conversion to THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT a bit easier for architectures that have a couple of arch specific stuff in their thread_info definition. The arch specific stuff _could_ be moved to thread_struct. However keeping them in thread_info makes it easier: accessing thread_info members is simple, since it is at the beginning of the task_struct, while the thread_struct is at the end. At least on s390 the offsets needed to access members of the thread_struct (with task_struct as base) are too large for various asm instructions. This is not a problem when keeping these members within thread_info. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: keescook@chromium.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476901693-8492-2-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -52,6 +52,15 @@ struct task_struct;
 #include <asm/cpufeature.h>
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
 
+struct thread_info {
+	unsigned long		flags;		/* low level flags */
+};
+
+#define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk)			\
+{						\
+	.flags		= 0,			\
+}
+
 #define init_stack		(init_thread_union.stack)
 
 #else /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
@@ -13,17 +13,6 @@
 struct timespec;
 struct compat_timespec;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
-struct thread_info {
-	unsigned long		flags;		/* low level flags */
-};
-
-#define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk)			\
-{						\
-	.flags		= 0,			\
-}
-#endif
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
 #define current_thread_info() ((struct thread_info *)current)
 #endif
