x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:23:27 +0000 (10:23 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:31:14 +0000 (08:31 +0100)
commita582c540ac1b10f0a7d37415e04c4af42409fd08
tree7aa03d7e392b1f08fea2719e66b536113e40c2e7
parent89a01c51cbe3b6ae81008e8c91235be583df8c50
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>
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h