x86: ignore the sys_getcpu() tcache parameter

dont use the vgetcpu tcache - it's causing problems with tasks
migrating, they'll see the old cache up to a jiffy after the
migration, further increasing the costs of the migration.

In the worst case they see a complete bogus information from
the tcache, when a sys_getcpu() call "invalidated" the cache
info by incrementing the jiffies _and_ the cpuid info in the
cache and the following vdso_getcpu() call happens after
vdso_jiffies have been incremented.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
index 91f6e85d0fc2..3b1ae1abfba9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
@@ -13,32 +13,17 @@
 #include <asm/vgtod.h>
 #include "vextern.h"
 
-long __vdso_getcpu(unsigned *cpu, unsigned *node, struct getcpu_cache *tcache)
+long __vdso_getcpu(unsigned *cpu, unsigned *node, struct getcpu_cache *unused)
 {
         unsigned int dummy, p;
-        unsigned long j = 0;
 
-        /* Fast cache - only recompute value once per jiffies and avoid
-           relatively costly rdtscp/cpuid otherwise.
-           This works because the scheduler usually keeps the process
-           on the same CPU and this syscall doesn't guarantee its
-           results anyways.
-           We do this here because otherwise user space would do it on
-           its own in a likely inferior way (no access to jiffies).
-           If you don't like it pass NULL. */
-        if (tcache && tcache->blob[0] == (j = *vdso_jiffies)) {
-                p = tcache->blob[1];
-        } else if (*vdso_vgetcpu_mode == VGETCPU_RDTSCP) {
+        if (*vdso_vgetcpu_mode == VGETCPU_RDTSCP) {
                 /* Load per CPU data from RDTSCP */
                 rdtscp(dummy, dummy, p);
         } else {
                 /* Load per CPU data from GDT */
                 asm("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
         }
-        if (tcache) {
-                tcache->blob[0] = j;
-                tcache->blob[1] = p;
-        }
         if (cpu)
                 *cpu = p & 0xfff;
         if (node)