x86: A fast way to check capabilities of the current cpu

Add this_cpu_has() which determines if the current cpu has a certain
ability using a segment prefix and a bit test operation.

For that we need to add bit operations to x86s percpu.h.

Many uses of cpu_has use a pointer passed to a function to determine
the current flags. That is no longer necessary after this patch.

However, this patch only converts the straightforward cases where
cpu_has is used with this_cpu_ptr. The rest is work for later.

-tj: Rolled up patch to add x86_ prefix and use percpu_read() instead
     of percpu_read_stable().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index d46cbe46b7ab..88a90a977f8e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_idle_wait);
 void mwait_idle_with_hints(unsigned long ax, unsigned long cx)
 {
 	if (!need_resched()) {
-		if (cpu_has(__this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_info), X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR))
+		if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR))
 			clflush((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags);
 
 		__monitor((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static void mwait_idle(void)
 	if (!need_resched()) {
 		trace_power_start(POWER_CSTATE, 1, smp_processor_id());
 		trace_cpu_idle(1, smp_processor_id());
-		if (cpu_has(__this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_info), X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR))
+		if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR))
 			clflush((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags);
 
 		__monitor((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);