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powerpc: Add VDSO version of getcpu

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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 <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard
2012-07-04 20:37:11 +00:00
committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent e6a74c6ea3
commit 18ad51dd34
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# List of files in the vdso, has to be asm only for now
obj-vdso64 = sigtramp.o gettimeofday.o datapage.o cacheflush.o note.o
obj-vdso64 = sigtramp.o gettimeofday.o datapage.o cacheflush.o note.o getcpu.o
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