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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c index 0b8b6690a86d..ebf2f12900f5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c @@ -128,7 +128,16 @@ 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; |