This saves 320 bytes of the precious stack space.
The only negative aspect of the change I can think of is that the
struct thread increased by 320 bytes obviously, and that 320 bytes are
not swapped out anymore. I believe the freed stack space is much more
important than that. Also, current struct thread size is 1392 bytes
on amd64, so UMA will allocate two thread structures per (4KB) slab,
which leaves a space for pcb without increasing zone memory use.
Reviewed by: alc, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22138
Many extern struct pcpu <something>__pcpu declarations were
copied/pasted in sources. The issue is that the definition is MD, but
it cannot be provided by machine/pcpu.h due to actual struct pcpu
defined in sys/pcpu.h later than the inclusion of machine/pcpu.h.
This forced the copying when other code needed direct access to
__pcpu. There is no way around it, due to machine/pcpu.h supplying
part of struct pcpu fields.
To work around the problem, add a new machine/pcpu_aux.h header, which
should fill any needed MD definitions after struct pcpu definition is
completed. This allows to remove copies of __pcpu spread around the
source. Also on x86 it makes it possible to remove work arounds like
OFFSETOF_CURTHREAD or clang specific warnings supressions.
Reported and tested by: lwhsu, bcran
Reviewed by: imp, markj (previous version)
Discussed with: jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21418
