x86/TSC: Use RDTSCP
Currently, the kernel uses [LM]FENCE; RDTSC in the timekeeping code, to guarantee monotonicity of time where the *FENCE is selected based on vendor. Replace that sequence with RDTSCP which is faster or on-par and gives the same guarantees. A microbenchmark on Intel shows that the change is on-par. On AMD, the change is either on-par with the current LFENCE-prefixed RDTSC or slightly better with RDTSCP. The comparison is done with the LFENCE-prefixed RDTSC (and not with the MFENCE-prefixed one, as one would normally expect) because all modern AMD families make LFENCE serializing and thus avoid the heavy MFENCE by effectively enabling X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC. Co-developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: x86@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181119184556.11479-1-bp@alien8.de
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