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x86/asm/tsc, x86/kvm: Drop open-coded barrier and use rdtsc_ordered() in kvmclock

__pvclock_read_cycles() used to have two barriers, one of which was unnecessary,
which got removed after an initial version of this patch was sent.

But the barrier is still open-coded unnecessarily - get rid of
that barrier and clean up the code by just using rdtsc_ordered().

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/678981cc4761fb38a793c217c9cac42503cf3719.1434501121.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Ported it to v4.2-rc1. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Andy Lutomirski and committed by
Ingo Molnar
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arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h
··· 62 62 static __always_inline 63 63 u64 pvclock_get_nsec_offset(const struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src) 64 64 { 65 - u64 delta = rdtsc() - src->tsc_timestamp; 65 + u64 delta = rdtsc_ordered() - src->tsc_timestamp; 66 66 return pvclock_scale_delta(delta, src->tsc_to_system_mul, 67 67 src->tsc_shift); 68 68 } ··· 76 76 u8 ret_flags; 77 77 78 78 version = src->version; 79 - /* Note: emulated platforms which do not advertise SSE2 support 80 - * result in kvmclock not using the necessary RDTSC barriers. 81 - * Without barriers, it is possible that RDTSC instruction reads from 82 - * the time stamp counter outside rdtsc_barrier protected section 83 - * below, resulting in violation of monotonicity. 84 - */ 85 - rdtsc_barrier(); 79 + 86 80 offset = pvclock_get_nsec_offset(src); 87 81 ret = src->system_time + offset; 88 82 ret_flags = src->flags;