From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:57:46 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] x86, vdso: Use asm volatile in __getcpu
In Linux 3.18 and below, GCC hoists the lsl instructions in the
pvclock code all the way to the beginning of __vdso_clock_gettime,
slowing the non-paravirt case significantly. For unknown reasons,
presumably related to the removal of a branch, the performance issue
is gone as of
e76b027e6408 x86,vdso: Use LSL unconditionally for vgetcpu
but I don't trust GCC enough to expect the problem to stay fixed.
There should be no correctness issue, because the __getcpu calls in
__vdso_vlock_gettime were never necessary in the first place.
Note to stable maintainers: In 3.18 and below, depending on
configuration, gcc 4.9.2 generates code like this:
9c3: 44 0f 03 e8 lsl %ax,%r13d
9c7: 45 89 eb mov %r13d,%r11d
9ca: 0f 03 d8 lsl %ax,%ebx
This patch won't apply as is to any released kernel, but I'll send a
trivial backported version if needed.
Fixes: 51c19b4f5927 x86: vdso: pvclock gettime support
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.8+
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
(Backported to 3.17.8 by Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>)
---
arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
index 2a46ca720afc..3db1fa5fdceb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static inline unsigned int __getcpu(void)
native_read_tscp(&p);
} else {
/* Load per CPU data from GDT */
- asm("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
+ asm volatile("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
}
return p;
--
2.1.0