[PATCH] i386/x86-64/ia64: Move polling flag into thread_info_status

During some profiling I noticed that default_idle causes a lot of
memory traffic. I think that is caused by the atomic operations
to clear/set the polling flag in thread_info. There is actually
no reason to make this atomic - only the idle thread does it
to itself, other CPUs only read it. So I moved it into ti->status.

Converted i386/x86-64/ia64 for now because that was the easiest
way to fix ACPI which also manipulates these flags in its idle
function.

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@novell.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

include/asm-ia64/thread_info.h

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ struct thread_info {
 	__u32 flags;			/* thread_info flags (see TIF_*) */
 	__u32 cpu;			/* current CPU */
 	__u32 last_cpu;			/* Last CPU thread ran on */
+	__u32 status;			/* Thread synchronous flags */
 	mm_segment_t addr_limit;	/* user-level address space limit */
 	int preempt_count;		/* 0=premptable, <0=BUG; will also serve as bh-counter */
 	struct restart_block restart_block;
@@ -103,4 +104,8 @@ struct thread_info {
 /* like TIF_ALLWORK_BITS but sans TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE or TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT */
 #define TIF_WORK_MASK		(TIF_ALLWORK_MASK&~(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE|_TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT))
 
+#define TS_POLLING		1 	/* true if in idle loop and not sleeping */
+
+#define tsk_is_polling(t) ((t)->thread_info->status & TS_POLLING)
+
 #endif /* _ASM_IA64_THREAD_INFO_H */