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, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index fabf01eff77..2bc503bf9e9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ static void __cpuinit setup_APIC_timer(void)
 {
 	struct clock_event_device *levt = &__get_cpu_var(lapic_events);
 
-	if (cpu_has(__this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_info), X86_FEATURE_ARAT)) {
+	if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARAT)) {
 		lapic_clockevent.features &= ~CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP;
 		/* Make LAPIC timer preferrable over percpu HPET */
 		lapic_clockevent.rating = 150;