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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2012-07-04 16:37:11 -0400
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2012-07-11 00:18:40 -0400
commit18ad51dd342a7eb09dbcd059d0b451b616d4dafc (patch)
tree94809605669eb3b5e4e049501958a2fa93ae2de7 /arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S
parente6a74c6ea331b79c86e1898c504790b3dadc591d (diff)
powerpc: Add VDSO version of getcpu
We have a request for a fast method of getting CPU and NUMA node IDs from userspace. This patch implements a getcpu VDSO function, similar to x86. Ben suggested we use SPRG3 which is userspace readable. SPRG3 can be modified by a KVM guest, so we save the SPRG3 value in the paca and restore it when transitioning from the guest to the host. I have a glibc patch that implements sched_getcpu on top of this. Testing on a POWER7: baseline: 538 cycles vdso: 30 cycles Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S
index 0546bcd49cd0..43200ba2e570 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ VERSION
147 __kernel_sync_dicache_p5; 147 __kernel_sync_dicache_p5;
148 __kernel_sigtramp32; 148 __kernel_sigtramp32;
149 __kernel_sigtramp_rt32; 149 __kernel_sigtramp_rt32;
150#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
151 __kernel_getcpu;
152#endif
150 153
151 local: *; 154 local: *;
152 }; 155 };