From 18ad51dd342a7eb09dbcd059d0b451b616d4dafc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:37:11 +0000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S') 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 __kernel_sync_dicache_p5; __kernel_sigtramp32; __kernel_sigtramp_rt32; +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 + __kernel_getcpu; +#endif local: *; }; -- cgit v1.2.2