linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 06/18] x86/tsc: Use the full 64-bit tsc in tsc

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Message-Id: <bd1a277c71321b67c4794970cb5ace05efe21ab6.1434501121.git.luto@kernel.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:35:54 -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 06/18] x86/tsc: Use the full 64-bit tsc in tsc_delay

As a very minor optimization, tsc_delay was only using the low 32
bits of the TSC.  It's a delay function, so just use the whole
thing.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/lib/delay.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
index 9a52ad0c0758..35115f3786a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
@@ -49,16 +49,16 @@ static void delay_loop(unsigned long loops)
 /* TSC based delay: */
 static void delay_tsc(unsigned long __loops)
 {
-	u32 bclock, now, loops = __loops;
+	u64 bclock, now, loops = __loops;
 	int cpu;
 
 	preempt_disable();
 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	rdtsc_barrier();
-	rdtscl(bclock);
+	bclock = native_read_tsc();
 	for (;;) {
 		rdtsc_barrier();
-		rdtscl(now);
+		now = native_read_tsc();
 		if ((now - bclock) >= loops)
 			break;
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static void delay_tsc(unsigned long __loops)
 			loops -= (now - bclock);
 			cpu = smp_processor_id();
 			rdtsc_barrier();
-			rdtscl(bclock);
+			bclock = native_read_tsc();
 		}
 	}
 	preempt_enable();
-- 
2.4.2

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