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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2016-11-16 10:23:27 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-11-17 08:31:14 +0100 |
| commit | a582c540ac1b10f0a7d37415e04c4af42409fd08 (patch) | |
| tree | 7aa03d7e392b1f08fea2719e66b536113e40c2e7 /fs/xfs | |
| parent | 89a01c51cbe3b6ae81008e8c91235be583df8c50 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a582c540ac1b10f0a7d37415e04c4af42409fd08.tar.bz2 | |
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>
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