From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.
===============
commit 1ddf0b1b11aa8a90cef6706e935fc31c75c406ba upstream.
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.
[
Backported by Andy Lutomirski. Should apply to all affected
versions. This fixes a functionality bug as well as a performance
bug: buggy kernels can infinite loop in __vdso_clock_gettime on
affected compilers. See, for exammple:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178975
]
Fixes: 51c19b4f5927 x86: vdso: pvclock gettime support
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
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..2874be9aef0a 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;
--
2.2.1
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