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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2015-06-25 18:43:57 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-07-06 15:23:26 +0200
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x86/asm/tsc, x86/paravirt: Remove read_tsc() and read_tscp() paravirt hooks
We've had ->read_tsc() and ->read_tscp() paravirt hooks since the very beginning of paravirt, i.e., d3561b7fa0fb ("[PATCH] paravirt: header and stubs for paravirtualisation"). AFAICT, the only paravirt guest implementation that ever replaced these calls was vmware, and it's gone. Arguably even vmware shouldn't have hooked RDTSC -- we fully support systems that don't have a TSC at all, so there's no point for a paravirt implementation to pretend that we have a TSC but to replace it. I also doubt that these hooks actually worked. Calls to rdtscl() and rdtscll(), which respected the hooks, were used seemingly interchangeably with native_read_tsc(), which did not. Just remove them. If anyone ever needs them again, they can try to make a case for why they need them. Before, on a paravirt config: text data bss dec hex filename 12618257 1816384 1093632 15528273 ecf151 vmlinux After: text data bss dec hex filename 12617207 1816384 1093632 15527223 eced37 vmlinux Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d08a2600fb298af163681e5efd8e599d889a5b97.1434501121.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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