linux-kernel - [tip: x86/urgent] x86/cpu: Remove write_tsc() and write_rdtscp

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Message-ID: <162030324666.29796.2683724814193084316.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date:   Thu, 06 May 2021 12:14:06 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: x86/urgent] x86/cpu: Remove write_tsc() and write_rdtscp_aux() wrappers

The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     fc48a6d1faadbf08b7a840d58a5a6eb85bd1a79a
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/fc48a6d1faadbf08b7a840d58a5a6eb85bd1a79a
Author:        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
AuthorDate:    Tue, 04 May 2021 15:56:32 -07:00
Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitterDate: Wed, 05 May 2021 21:50:14 +02:00

x86/cpu: Remove write_tsc() and write_rdtscp_aux() wrappers

Drop write_tsc() and write_rdtscp_aux(); the former has no users, and the
latter has only a single user and is slightly misleading since the only
in-kernel consumer of MSR_TSC_AUX is RDPID, not RDTSCP.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210504225632.1532621-3-seanjc@google.com

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h   | 4 ----
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
index e16cccd..a3f87f1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
@@ -324,10 +324,6 @@ static inline int wrmsrl_safe(u32 msr, u64 val)
 	return wrmsr_safe(msr, (u32)val,  (u32)(val >> 32));
 }
 
-#define write_tsc(low, high) wrmsr(MSR_IA32_TSC, (low), (high))
-
-#define write_rdtscp_aux(val) wrmsr(MSR_TSC_AUX, (val), 0)
-
 struct msr *msrs_alloc(void);
 void msrs_free(struct msr *msrs);
 int msr_set_bit(u32 msr, u8 bit);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 490bed0..a1b756c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@ static inline void setup_getcpu(int cpu)
 	struct desc_struct d = { };
 
 	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP) || boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RDPID))
-		write_rdtscp_aux(cpudata);
+		wrmsr(MSR_TSC_AUX, cpudata, 0);
 
 	/* Store CPU and node number in limit. */
 	d.limit0 = cpudata;