x86: remove get_cycles_sync

rdtsc is now speculation-safe, so no need for the sync variants of
the APIs.

[ mingo@elte.hu: removed the nsec_barrier() complication. ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

arch/x86/kernel/time_64.c

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ unsigned long __init native_calculate_cpu_khz(void)
 	rdtscl(tsc_start);
 	do {
 		rdmsrl(MSR_K7_PERFCTR0 + i, pmc_now);
-		tsc_now = get_cycles_sync();
+		tsc_now = get_cycles();
 	} while ((tsc_now - tsc_start) < TICK_COUNT);
 
 	local_irq_restore(flags);

arch/x86/kernel/tsc_64.c

@@ -181,12 +181,12 @@ static unsigned long __init tsc_read_refs(unsigned long *pm,
 	int i;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MAX_RETRIES; i++) {
-		t1 = get_cycles_sync();
+		t1 = get_cycles();
 		if (hpet)
 			*hpet = hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) & 0xFFFFFFFF;
 		else
 			*pm = acpi_pm_read_early();
-		t2 = get_cycles_sync();
+		t2 = get_cycles();
 		if ((t2 - t1) < SMI_TRESHOLD)
 			return t2;
 	}
@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@ void __init tsc_calibrate(void)
 	outb(0xb0, 0x43);
 	outb((CLOCK_TICK_RATE / (1000 / 50)) & 0xff, 0x42);
 	outb((CLOCK_TICK_RATE / (1000 / 50)) >> 8, 0x42);
-	tr1 = get_cycles_sync();
+	tr1 = get_cycles();
 	while ((inb(0x61) & 0x20) == 0);
-	tr2 = get_cycles_sync();
+	tr2 = get_cycles();
 
 	tsc2 = tsc_read_refs(&pm2, hpet ? &hpet2 : NULL);
 
@@ -300,13 +300,13 @@ __setup("notsc", notsc_setup);
 /* clock source code: */
 static cycle_t read_tsc(void)
 {
-	cycle_t ret = (cycle_t)get_cycles_sync();
+	cycle_t ret = (cycle_t)get_cycles();
 	return ret;
 }
 
 static cycle_t __vsyscall_fn vread_tsc(void)
 {
-	cycle_t ret = (cycle_t)vget_cycles_sync();
+	cycle_t ret = (cycle_t)vget_cycles();
 	return ret;
 }
 

arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static __cpuinit void check_tsc_warp(void)
 	cycles_t start, now, prev, end;
 	int i;
 
-	start = get_cycles_sync();
+	start = get_cycles();
 	/*
 	 * The measurement runs for 20 msecs:
 	 */
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static __cpuinit void check_tsc_warp(void)
 		 */
 		__raw_spin_lock(&sync_lock);
 		prev = last_tsc;
-		now = get_cycles_sync();
+		now = get_cycles();
 		last_tsc = now;
 		__raw_spin_unlock(&sync_lock);
 

include/asm-x86/tsc.h

@@ -36,62 +36,18 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-/* Like get_cycles, but make sure the CPU is synchronized. */
+static inline cycles_t vget_cycles(void)
-static __always_inline cycles_t __get_cycles_sync(void)
 {
-	unsigned long long ret;
-	unsigned eax, edx;
-
 	/*
-	 * Use RDTSCP if possible; it is guaranteed to be synchronous
+	 * We only do VDSOs on TSC capable CPUs, so this shouldnt
-	 * and doesn't cause a VMEXIT on Hypervisors
+	 * access boot_cpu_data (which is not VDSO-safe):
 	 */
-	alternative_io(ASM_NOP3, ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xf9", X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP,
+#ifndef CONFIG_X86_TSC
-		       ASM_OUTPUT2("=a" (eax), "=d" (edx)),
+	if (!cpu_has_tsc)
-		       "a" (0U), "d" (0U) : "ecx", "memory");
+		return 0;
-	ret = (((unsigned long long)edx) << 32) | ((unsigned long long)eax);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	/*
-	 * Don't do an additional sync on CPUs where we know
-	 * RDTSC is already synchronous:
-	 */
-	alternative_io("cpuid", ASM_NOP2, X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC,
-			  "=a" (eax), "0" (1) : "ebx","ecx","edx","memory");
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static __always_inline cycles_t get_cycles_sync(void)
-{
-	unsigned long long ret;
-	ret = __get_cycles_sync();
-	if (!ret)
-		rdtscll(ret);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
-/*
- * For paravirt guests, some functionalities are executed through function
- * pointers in the various pvops structures.
- * These function pointers exist inside the kernel and can not
- * be accessed by user space. To avoid this, we make a copy of the
- * get_cycles_sync (called in kernel) but force the use of native_read_tsc.
- * Ideally, the guest should set up it's own clock and vread
- */
-static __always_inline long long vget_cycles_sync(void)
-{
-	unsigned long long ret;
-	ret = __get_cycles_sync();
-	if (!ret)
-		ret = native_read_tsc();
-	return ret;
-}
-#else
-# define vget_cycles_sync() get_cycles_sync()
 #endif
+	return (cycles_t) native_read_tsc();
+}
 
 extern void tsc_init(void);
 extern void mark_tsc_unstable(char *reason);