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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2014-10-30 14:58:01 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2014-11-03 13:41:53 +0100
commite76b027e6408f5570dc940b731ec9ae870c6188a (patch)
treed94287f98ee13c7e2fedd4890499f178079ce6ab /arch/x86/kernel
parenta92f101bc99d17b75021cf29f18cc57f39a37d1f (diff)
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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@amacapital.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/72f73d5ec4514e02bba345b9759177ef03742efb.1414706021.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c10
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c2
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
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)
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