Merge branch 'topic/misc' into for-linus
[linux-2.6] / include / linux / percpu-defs.h
1 #ifndef _LINUX_PERCPU_DEFS_H
2 #define _LINUX_PERCPU_DEFS_H
3
4 /*
5  * Determine the real variable name from the name visible in the
6  * kernel sources.
7  */
8 #define per_cpu_var(var) per_cpu__##var
9
10 /*
11  * Base implementations of per-CPU variable declarations and definitions, where
12  * the section in which the variable is to be placed is provided by the
13  * 'section' argument.  This may be used to affect the parameters governing the
14  * variable's storage.
15  *
16  * NOTE!  The sections for the DECLARE and for the DEFINE must match, lest
17  * linkage errors occur due the compiler generating the wrong code to access
18  * that section.
19  */
20 #define DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, section)                    \
21         extern                                                          \
22         __attribute__((__section__(PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION section)))      \
23         PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name
24
25 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, section)                     \
26         __attribute__((__section__(PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION section)))      \
27         PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name
28
29 /*
30  * Variant on the per-CPU variable declaration/definition theme used for
31  * ordinary per-CPU variables.
32  */
33 #define DECLARE_PER_CPU(type, name)                                     \
34         DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "")
35
36 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)                                      \
37         DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "")
38
39 /*
40  * Declaration/definition used for per-CPU variables that must come first in
41  * the set of variables.
42  */
43 #define DECLARE_PER_CPU_FIRST(type, name)                               \
44         DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, PER_CPU_FIRST_SECTION)
45
46 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU_FIRST(type, name)                                \
47         DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, PER_CPU_FIRST_SECTION)
48
49 /*
50  * Declaration/definition used for per-CPU variables that must be cacheline
51  * aligned under SMP conditions so that, whilst a particular instance of the
52  * data corresponds to a particular CPU, inefficiencies due to direct access by
53  * other CPUs are reduced by preventing the data from unnecessarily spanning
54  * cachelines.
55  *
56  * An example of this would be statistical data, where each CPU's set of data
57  * is updated by that CPU alone, but the data from across all CPUs is collated
58  * by a CPU processing a read from a proc file.
59  */
60 #define DECLARE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(type, name)                      \
61         DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION) \
62         ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp
63
64 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(type, name)                       \
65         DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION) \
66         ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp
67
68 /*
69  * Declaration/definition used for per-CPU variables that must be page aligned.
70  */
71 #define DECLARE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(type, name)                                \
72         DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, ".page_aligned")
73
74 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(type, name)                         \
75         DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, ".page_aligned")
76
77 /*
78  * Intermodule exports for per-CPU variables.
79  */
80 #define EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(var) EXPORT_SYMBOL(per_cpu__##var)
81 #define EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(var) EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(per_cpu__##var)
82
83
84 #endif /* _LINUX_PERCPU_DEFS_H */