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/vdso/vgetcpu.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
index 3b1ae1a..c8097f1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@
long __vdso_getcpu(unsigned *cpu, unsigned *node, struct getcpu_cache *unused)
{
- unsigned int dummy, p;
+ unsigned int p;
if (*vdso_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));