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authorMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>2008-12-31 17:34:16 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-03 18:53:31 +0100
commit7eb19553369c46cc1fa64caf120cbcab1b597f7c (patch)
treeef1a3beae706b9497c845d0a2557ceb4d2754998 /arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
parent6092848a2a23b660150a38bc06f59d75838d70c8 (diff)
parent8c384cdee3e04d6194a2c2b192b624754f990835 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask into merge-rr-cpumask
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c kernel/rcuclassic.c kernel/sched.c kernel/time/tick-sched.c Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> [ mingo@elte.hu: backmerged typo fix for io_apic.c ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index 6f3d3d4cd973..44153afc9067 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -131,7 +131,16 @@ static __always_inline void do_vgettimeofday(struct timeval * tv)
gettimeofday(tv,NULL);
return;
}
+
+ /*
+ * Surround the RDTSC by barriers, to make sure it's not
+ * speculated to outside the seqlock critical section and
+ * does not cause time warps:
+ */
+ rdtsc_barrier();
now = vread();
+ rdtsc_barrier();
+
base = __vsyscall_gtod_data.clock.cycle_last;
mask = __vsyscall_gtod_data.clock.mask;
mult = __vsyscall_gtod_data.clock.mult;
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