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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2016-11-16 21:23:27 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-11-17 10:31:14 +0300 |
| commit | a582c540ac1b10f0a7d37415e04c4af42409fd08 (patch) | |
| tree | 7aa03d7e392b1f08fea2719e66b536113e40c2e7 /arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h | |
| parent | 89a01c51cbe3b6ae81008e8c91235be583df8c50 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a582c540ac1b10f0a7d37415e04c4af42409fd08.tar.xz | |
x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available
RDPID is a new instruction that reads MSR_TSC_AUX quickly. This
should be considerably faster than reading the GDT. Add a
cpufeature for it and use it from __vdso_getcpu() when available.
Tested-by: Megha Dey <megha.dey@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6c3a22012d10f1c65b9ca15800e01b42c7d39d.1479320367.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h index e728699db774..3a01996db58f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h @@ -89,8 +89,13 @@ static inline unsigned int __getcpu(void) * works on all CPUs. This is volatile so that it orders * correctly wrt barrier() and to keep gcc from cleverly * hoisting it out of the calling function. + * + * If RDPID is available, use it. */ - asm volatile ("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG)); + alternative_io ("lsl %[p],%[seg]", + ".byte 0xf3,0x0f,0xc7,0xf8", /* RDPID %eax/rax */ + X86_FEATURE_RDPID, + [p] "=a" (p), [seg] "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG)); return p; } |