From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, megha.dey@intel.com,
jpoimboe@redhat.com, mingo@kernel.org, bp@alien8.de,
brgerst@gmail.com, dvlasenk@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
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Subject: [tip:x86/asm] x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:49:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-a582c540ac1b10f0a7d37415e04c4af42409fd08@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f6c3a22012d10f1c65b9ca15800e01b42c7d39d.1479320367.git.luto@kernel.org>
Commit-ID: a582c540ac1b10f0a7d37415e04c4af42409fd08
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a582c540ac1b10f0a7d37415e04c4af42409fd08
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:23:27 -0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 08:31:14 +0100
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 | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h | 7 ++++++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index a3e8cd7..eac7572 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_AVX512VBMI (16*32+ 1) /* AVX512 Vector Bit Manipulation instructions*/
#define X86_FEATURE_PKU (16*32+ 3) /* Protection Keys for Userspace */
#define X86_FEATURE_OSPKE (16*32+ 4) /* OS Protection Keys Enable */
+#define X86_FEATURE_RDPID (16*32+ 22) /* RDPID instruction */
/* AMD-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x80000007 (ebx), word 17 */
#define X86_FEATURE_OVERFLOW_RECOV (17*32+0) /* MCA overflow recovery support */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
index e728699..3a01996 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
@@ -89,8 +89,13 @@ static inline unsigned int __getcpu(void)
* works on all CPUs. This is volatile so that it orders
* correctly wrt barrier() and to keep gcc from cleverly
* hoisting it out of the calling function.
+ *
+ * If RDPID is available, use it.
*/
- asm volatile ("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
+ alternative_io ("lsl %[p],%[seg]",
+ ".byte 0xf3,0x0f,0xc7,0xf8", /* RDPID %eax/rax */
+ X86_FEATURE_RDPID,
+ [p] "=a" (p), [seg] "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
return p;
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-17 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-16 18:23 [PATCH 0/2] x86/vdso: RDPID support and a test Andy Lutomirski
2016-11-16 18:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available Andy Lutomirski
2016-11-17 7:49 ` tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2016-11-16 18:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftests/x86: Add test_vdso to test getcpu Andy Lutomirski
2016-11-17 7:50 ` [tip:x86/asm] selftests/x86: Add test_vdso to test getcpu() tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
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