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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6c3a22012d10f1c65b9ca15800e01b42c7d39d.1479320367.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Andy Lutomirski authored and Ingo Molnar committed 2016-11-17 08:31:14 +01:00
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@@ -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 */
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@@ -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;
}