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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2015-04-23 13:20:18 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2015-04-27 15:49:30 +0200
commit73459e2a1ada09a68c02cc5b73f3116fc8194b3d (patch)
tree2d85beb72d2ee970926f65554099764e2cdc1f9c /arch/x86/kernel
parent5dca0d9147458be9b9363b8a484aa77d710b412a (diff)
downloadlinux-73459e2a1ada09a68c02cc5b73f3116fc8194b3d.tar.bz2
x86: pvclock: Really remove the sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations
This reverts commits 0a4e6be9ca17c54817cf814b4b5aa60478c6df27 and 80f7fdb1c7f0f9266421f823964fd1962681f6ce. The task migration notifier was originally introduced in order to support the pvclock vsyscall with non-synchronized TSC, but KVM only supports it with synchronized TSC. Hence, on KVM the race condition is only needed due to a bad implementation on the host side, and even then it's so rare that it's mostly theoretical. As far as KVM is concerned it's possible to fix the host, avoiding the additional complexity in the vDSO and the (re)introduction of the task migration notifier. Xen, on the other hand, hasn't yet implemented vsyscall support at all, so we do not care about its plans for non-synchronized TSC. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c44
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 44 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
index e5ecd20e72dd..2f355d229a58 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
@@ -141,46 +141,7 @@ void pvclock_read_wallclock(struct pvclock_wall_clock *wall_clock,
set_normalized_timespec(ts, now.tv_sec, now.tv_nsec);
}
-static struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *pvclock_vdso_info;
-
-static struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *
-pvclock_get_vsyscall_user_time_info(int cpu)
-{
- if (!pvclock_vdso_info) {
- BUG();
- return NULL;
- }
-
- return &pvclock_vdso_info[cpu];
-}
-
-struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *pvclock_get_vsyscall_time_info(int cpu)
-{
- return &pvclock_get_vsyscall_user_time_info(cpu)->pvti;
-}
-
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-static int pvclock_task_migrate(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long l,
- void *v)
-{
- struct task_migration_notifier *mn = v;
- struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *pvti;
-
- pvti = pvclock_get_vsyscall_user_time_info(mn->from_cpu);
-
- /* this is NULL when pvclock vsyscall is not initialized */
- if (unlikely(pvti == NULL))
- return NOTIFY_DONE;
-
- pvti->migrate_count++;
-
- return NOTIFY_DONE;
-}
-
-static struct notifier_block pvclock_migrate = {
- .notifier_call = pvclock_task_migrate,
-};
-
/*
* Initialize the generic pvclock vsyscall state. This will allocate
* a/some page(s) for the per-vcpu pvclock information, set up a
@@ -194,17 +155,12 @@ int __init pvclock_init_vsyscall(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *i,
WARN_ON (size != PVCLOCK_VSYSCALL_NR_PAGES*PAGE_SIZE);
- pvclock_vdso_info = i;
-
for (idx = 0; idx <= (PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_END-PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_BEGIN); idx++) {
__set_fixmap(PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_BEGIN + idx,
__pa(i) + (idx*PAGE_SIZE),
PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR);
}
-
- register_task_migration_notifier(&pvclock_migrate);
-
return 0;
}
#endif