[tip:x86/vdso] x86,vdso: Use LSL unconditionally for vgetcpu

From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
Date: Mon Nov 03 2014 - 07:49:01 EST


Commit-ID: e76b027e6408f5570dc940b731ec9ae870c6188a
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/e76b027e6408f5570dc940b731ec9ae870c6188a
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:58:01 -0700
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 13:41:53 +0100

x86,vdso: Use LSL unconditionally for vgetcpu

LSL is faster than RDTSCP and works everywhere; there's no need to
switch between them depending on CPU.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/72f73d5ec4514e02bba345b9759177ef03742efb.1414706021.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h | 29 -----------------------------
arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h | 1 -
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 10 ----------
arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 2 --
arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c | 1 -
6 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
index 3c3366c..e7e9682 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
@@ -70,4 +70,23 @@ static inline void gtod_write_end(struct vsyscall_gtod_data *s)
++s->seq;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+
+#define VGETCPU_CPU_MASK 0xfff
+
+static inline unsigned int __getcpu(void)
+{
+ unsigned int p;
+
+ /*
+ * Load per CPU data from GDT. LSL is faster than RDTSCP and
+ * works on all CPUs.
+ */
+ asm("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
+
+ return p;
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_VGTOD_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
index 2a46ca7..34f7d88 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
@@ -4,15 +4,6 @@
#include <linux/seqlock.h>
#include <uapi/asm/vsyscall.h>

-#define VGETCPU_RDTSCP 1
-#define VGETCPU_LSL 2
-
-/* kernel space (writeable) */
-extern int vgetcpu_mode;
-extern struct timezone sys_tz;
-
-#include <asm/vvar.h>
-
extern void map_vsyscall(void);

/*
@@ -21,24 +12,4 @@ extern void map_vsyscall(void);
*/
extern bool emulate_vsyscall(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address);

-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-
-#define VGETCPU_CPU_MASK 0xfff
-
-static inline unsigned int __getcpu(void)
-{
- unsigned int p;
-
- if (VVAR(vgetcpu_mode) == VGETCPU_RDTSCP) {
- /* Load per CPU data from RDTSCP */
- native_read_tscp(&p);
- } else {
- /* Load per CPU data from GDT */
- asm("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
- }
-
- return p;
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
-
#endif /* _ASM_X86_VSYSCALL_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
index 5f6d407..3f32dfc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ extern char __vvar_page;

/* DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) */

-DECLARE_VVAR(16, int, vgetcpu_mode)
DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data)

#undef DECLARE_VVAR
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 4b4f78c..175372b8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -956,14 +956,6 @@ static void identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
}

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-static void vgetcpu_set_mode(void)
-{
- if (cpu_has(&boot_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP))
- vgetcpu_mode = VGETCPU_RDTSCP;
- else
- vgetcpu_mode = VGETCPU_LSL;
-}
-
#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
/* May not be __init: called during resume */
static void syscall32_cpu_init(void)
@@ -1006,8 +998,6 @@ void __init identify_boot_cpu(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
sysenter_setup();
enable_sep_cpu();
-#else
- vgetcpu_set_mode();
#endif
cpu_detect_tlb(&boot_cpu_data);
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index 2f9ef0c..419e83b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include "vsyscall_trace.h"

-DEFINE_VVAR(int, vgetcpu_mode);
-
static enum { EMULATE, NATIVE, NONE } vsyscall_mode = EMULATE;

static int __init vsyscall_setup(char *str)
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
index add1d98..8ec3d1f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/getcpu.h>
#include <linux/time.h>
-#include <asm/vsyscall.h>
#include <asm/vgtod.h>

notrace long
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