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Message-Id: <20150114072058.966291578@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:22:20 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 069/150] x86, vdso: Use asm volatile in __getcpu

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>

commit 1ddf0b1b11aa8a90cef6706e935fc31c75c406ba upstream.

In Linux 3.18 and below, GCC hoists the lsl instructions in the
pvclock code all the way to the beginning of __vdso_clock_gettime,
slowing the non-paravirt case significantly.  For unknown reasons,
presumably related to the removal of a branch, the performance issue
is gone as of

e76b027e6408 x86,vdso: Use LSL unconditionally for vgetcpu

but I don't trust GCC enough to expect the problem to stay fixed.

There should be no correctness issue, because the __getcpu calls in
__vdso_vlock_gettime were never necessary in the first place.

Note to stable maintainers: In 3.18 and below, depending on
configuration, gcc 4.9.2 generates code like this:

     9c3:       44 0f 03 e8             lsl    %ax,%r13d
     9c7:       45 89 eb                mov    %r13d,%r11d
     9ca:       0f 03 d8                lsl    %ax,%ebx

This patch won't apply as is to any released kernel, but I'll send a
trivial backported version if needed.

[
 Backported by Andy Lutomirski.  Should apply to all affected
 versions.  This fixes a functionality bug as well as a performance
 bug: buggy kernels can infinite loop in __vdso_clock_gettime on
 affected compilers.  See, for exammple:

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178975
]

Fixes: 51c19b4f5927 x86: vdso: pvclock gettime support
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static inline unsigned int __getcpu(void
 		native_read_tscp(&p);
 	} else {
 		/* Load per CPU data from GDT */
-		asm("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
+		asm volatile ("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
 	}

 	return p;

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