rdtsc() in kvm-unit-tests on x86

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Hi all,

While I was looking at rdtsc() code in kvm-unit-tests (e.g. x86/vmexit.c),
I was getting curious that out-of-order execution on the processor
may make rdtsc() executed not in the place we expect.

Referring to this document from intel,
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/training/ia-32-ia-64-benchmark-code-execution-paper.html
they suggested to use rdtscp instruction and other techniques to
serialize reading tsc register.

I wonder how the serialization is achieved when using rdtsc() in
kvm-unit-tests code.
Or, maybe the serialization is not necessary for some reason?

Thanks,
Jintack

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