x86: Use generic init_task

[deliverable/linux.git] / arch / x86 / kernel / process.c

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 1d92a5ab6e8b939613d6bfd7221133df2496b482..8aa532fa015d1af03111052ee22eb4296509a931 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@
 #include <asm/debugreg.h>
 #include <asm/nmi.h>
 
+/*
+ * per-CPU TSS segments. Threads are completely 'soft' on Linux,
+ * no more per-task TSS's. The TSS size is kept cacheline-aligned
+ * so they are allowed to end up in the .data..cacheline_aligned
+ * section. Since TSS's are completely CPU-local, we want them
+ * on exact cacheline boundaries, to eliminate cacheline ping-pong.
+ */
+DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, init_tss) = INIT_TSS;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned char, is_idle);
 static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(idle_notifier);