Merge tag 'pr-20141223-x86-vdso' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux into x86/urgent

Pull VDSO fix from Andy Lutomirski:

 "This is hopefully the last vdso fix for 3.19.  It should be very
  safe (it just adds a volatile).

  I don't think it fixes an actual bug (the __getcpu calls in the
  pvclock code may not have been needed in the first place), but
  discussion on that point is ongoing.

  It also fixes a big performance issue in 3.18 and earlier in which
  the lsl instructions in vclock_gettime got hoisted so far up the
  function that they happened even when the function they were in was
  never called.  n 3.19, the performance issue seems to be gone due to
  the whims of my compiler and some interaction with a branch that's
  now gone.

  I'll hopefully have a much bigger overhaul of the pvclock code
  for 3.20, but it needs careful review."

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
index e7e9682a33e9..f556c4843aa1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
@@ -80,9 +80,11 @@ static inline unsigned int __getcpu(void)
 
 	/*
 	 * Load per CPU data from GDT.  LSL is faster than RDTSCP and
-	 * works on all CPUs.
+	 * works on all CPUs.  This is volatile so that it orders
+	 * correctly wrt barrier() and to keep gcc from cleverly
+	 * hoisting it out of the calling function.
 	 */
-	asm("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
+	asm volatile ("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
 
 	return p;
 }