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x86/irq: Demote irq_cpustat_t::__softirq_pending to u16
authorNicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:46:29 +0000 (12:46 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:11:06 +0000 (18:11 +0200)
commit6896e226e6d732576e27d463c42f3139f847f3d6
tree72663ccf19c642e92cfe674efc305640de4cbabb
parentf5129286ade4ef85ad8ad26a4a43ba54136f3755
x86/irq: Demote irq_cpustat_t::__softirq_pending to u16

commit 9aee5f8a7e30330d0a8f4c626dc924ca5590aba5 upstream

An upcoming patch will extend KVM's L1TF mitigation in conditional mode
to also cover interrupts after VMEXITs. For tracking those, stores to a
new per-cpu flag from interrupt handlers will become necessary.

In order to improve cache locality, this new flag will be added to x86's
irq_cpustat_t.

Make some space available there by shrinking the ->softirq_pending bitfield
from 32 to 16 bits: the number of bits actually used is only NR_SOFTIRQS,
i.e. 10.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h