Re: [PATCH v2 8/8 only] x86,vdso: Use LSL unconditionally for vgetcpu

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Oct 27 2014 - 07:31:12 EST


Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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

Yes it should have been done like this from day 1.

> diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
> index 9793322751e0..d14bb8faad16 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
> @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
> * Check with readelf after changing.
> */
>
> +/* Disable static_cpu_has debugging; it doesn't work in the vDSO */
> +#undef CONFIG_X86_DEBUG_STATIC_CPU_HAS
> +
> #include <uapi/linux/time.h>
> #include <asm/vgtod.h>
> #include <asm/hpet.h>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
> index add1d98d2477..fd8470c98ab5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
> @@ -5,10 +5,12 @@
> * Fast user context implementation of getcpu()
> */
>
> +/* Disable static_cpu_has debugging; it doesn't work in the vDSO */
> +#undef CONFIG_X86_DEBUG_STATIC_CPU_HAS


These two hunks are unrelated?

-Andi

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