linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 18/18] x86/tsc: Remove rdtsc

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:36:06 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:	x86@...nel.org
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 18/18] x86/tsc: Remove rdtsc_barrier()

All callers have been converted to rdtsc_ordered().

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 11 -----------
 arch/x86/um/asm/barrier.h      | 13 -------------
 2 files changed, 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
index e51a8f803f55..818cb8788225 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -91,15 +91,4 @@ do {									\
 #define smp_mb__before_atomic()	barrier()
 #define smp_mb__after_atomic()	barrier()
 
-/*
- * Stop RDTSC speculation. This is needed when you need to use RDTSC
- * (or get_cycles or vread that possibly accesses the TSC) in a defined
- * code region.
- */
-static __always_inline void rdtsc_barrier(void)
-{
-	alternative_2("", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC,
-			  "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC);
-}
-
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_BARRIER_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/um/asm/barrier.h
index b9531d343134..755481f14d90 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/x86/um/asm/barrier.h
@@ -45,17 +45,4 @@
 #define read_barrier_depends()		do { } while (0)
 #define smp_read_barrier_depends()	do { } while (0)
 
-/*
- * Stop RDTSC speculation. This is needed when you need to use RDTSC
- * (or get_cycles or vread that possibly accesses the TSC) in a defined
- * code region.
- *
- * (Could use an alternative three way for this if there was one.)
- */
-static inline void rdtsc_barrier(void)
-{
-	alternative_2("", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC,
-			  "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC);
-}
-
 #endif
-- 
2.4.2

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