From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org
commit a582c540ac1b10f0a7d37415e04c4af42409fd08 upstream.
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... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h @@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (ecx), word 16 */ #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 */ --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h @@ -83,8 +83,13 @@ 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; }