x86: introduce native_read_tscp
Targetting paravirt, this patch introduces native_read_tscp, in
place of rdtscp() macro. When in a paravirt guest, this will
involve a function call, and thus, cannot be done in the vdso area.
These users then have to call the native version directly
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index 018f7cf..c4c5e76 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
long __vsyscall(2)
vgetcpu(unsigned *cpu, unsigned *node, struct getcpu_cache *tcache)
{
- unsigned int dummy, p;
+ unsigned int p;
unsigned long j = 0;
/* Fast cache - only recompute value once per jiffies and avoid
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
p = tcache->blob[1];
} else if (__vgetcpu_mode == VGETCPU_RDTSCP) {
/* Load per CPU data from RDTSCP */
- rdtscp(dummy, dummy, p);
+ native_read_tscp(&p);
} else {
/* Load per CPU data from GDT */
asm("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));