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authorGustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>2013-09-27 11:56:14 -0300
committerGustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>2013-09-27 11:56:14 -0300
commit1025c04cecd19882e28f16c4004034b475c372c5 (patch)
tree2b7402887e86d54bff5a123228c9059eae5e32bd /arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
parent4375f1037d52602413142e290608d0d84671ad36 (diff)
parent5bcecf325378218a8e248bb6bcae96ec7362f8ef (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth
Conflicts: net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
index c74436e687b..72074d52840 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -85,15 +85,18 @@ static notrace cycle_t vread_pvclock(int *mode)
cycle_t ret;
u64 last;
u32 version;
- u32 migrate_count;
u8 flags;
unsigned cpu, cpu1;
/*
- * When looping to get a consistent (time-info, tsc) pair, we
- * also need to deal with the possibility we can switch vcpus,
- * so make sure we always re-fetch time-info for the current vcpu.
+ * Note: hypervisor must guarantee that:
+ * 1. cpu ID number maps 1:1 to per-CPU pvclock time info.
+ * 2. that per-CPU pvclock time info is updated if the
+ * underlying CPU changes.
+ * 3. that version is increased whenever underlying CPU
+ * changes.
+ *
*/
do {
cpu = __getcpu() & VGETCPU_CPU_MASK;
@@ -104,8 +107,6 @@ static notrace cycle_t vread_pvclock(int *mode)
pvti = get_pvti(cpu);
- migrate_count = pvti->migrate_count;
-
version = __pvclock_read_cycles(&pvti->pvti, &ret, &flags);
/*
@@ -117,8 +118,7 @@ static notrace cycle_t vread_pvclock(int *mode)
cpu1 = __getcpu() & VGETCPU_CPU_MASK;
} while (unlikely(cpu != cpu1 ||
(pvti->pvti.version & 1) ||
- pvti->pvti.version != version ||
- pvti->migrate_count != migrate_count));
+ pvti->pvti.version != version));
if (unlikely(!(flags & PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT)))
*mode = VCLOCK_NONE;