Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO
  clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option
  x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment
  Document the vDSO and add a reference parser
  ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data
  x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
  clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data
  x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build
  x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO
  x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative
  x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling
  x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls
  x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc
  x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
  x86-64: Map the HPET NX
  x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl
  x86-64: Give vvars their own page
  x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S
  x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable

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 a81aa9e9894c..000000000000
--- 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;
-}