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Andy Lutomirski committed a582c540ac1
x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available RDPID is a new instruction that reads MSR_TSC_AUX quickly. This should be considerably faster than reading the GDT. Add a cpufeature for it and use it from __vdso_getcpu() when available. Tested-by: Megha Dey <megha.dey@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> 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: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6c3a22012d10f1c65b9ca15800e01b42c7d39d.1479320367.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>