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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/vread_tsc_64.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vread_tsc_64.c | 36 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vread_tsc_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vread_tsc_64.c deleted file mode 100644 index a81aa9e9894..00000000000 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vread_tsc_64.c +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ -/* This code runs in userspace. */ - -#define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING -#include <asm/vgtod.h> - -notrace cycle_t __vsyscall_fn vread_tsc(void) -{ - cycle_t ret; - u64 last; - - /* - * Empirically, a fence (of type that depends on the CPU) - * before rdtsc is enough to ensure that rdtsc is ordered - * with respect to loads. The various CPU manuals are unclear - * as to whether rdtsc can be reordered with later loads, - * but no one has ever seen it happen. - */ - rdtsc_barrier(); - ret = (cycle_t)vget_cycles(); - - last = VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).clock.cycle_last; - - if (likely(ret >= last)) - return ret; - - /* - * GCC likes to generate cmov here, but this branch is extremely - * predictable (it's just a funciton of time and the likely is - * very likely) and there's a data dependence, so force GCC - * to generate a branch instead. I don't barrier() because - * we don't actually need a barrier, and if this function - * ever gets inlined it will generate worse code. - */ - asm volatile (""); - return last; -} |