x86/asm/tsc, x86/paravirt: Remove read_tsc() and read_tscp() paravirt hooks

We've had ->read_tsc() and ->read_tscp() paravirt hooks since
the very beginning of paravirt, i.e.,

  d3561b7fa0 ("[PATCH] paravirt: header and stubs for paravirtualisation").

AFAICT, the only paravirt guest implementation that ever
replaced these calls was vmware, and it's gone. Arguably even
vmware shouldn't have hooked RDTSC -- we fully support systems
that don't have a TSC at all, so there's no point for a paravirt
implementation to pretend that we have a TSC but to replace it.

I also doubt that these hooks actually worked. Calls to rdtscl()
and rdtscll(), which respected the hooks, were used seemingly
interchangeably with native_read_tsc(), which did not.

Just remove them. If anyone ever needs them again, they can try
to make a case for why they need them.

Before, on a paravirt config:
  text    	data     bss     dec     hex filename
  12618257      1816384 1093632 15528273 ecf151 vmlinux

After:
  text		data     bss     dec     hex filename
  12617207      1816384 1093632 15527223 eced37 vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d08a2600fb298af163681e5efd8e599d889a5b97.1434501121.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-25 18:43:57 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 881d7bf843
commit 9261e050b6
6 changed files with 8 additions and 51 deletions

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@@ -351,9 +351,7 @@ __visible struct pv_cpu_ops pv_cpu_ops = {
.wbinvd = native_wbinvd,
.read_msr = native_read_msr_safe,
.write_msr = native_write_msr_safe,
.read_tsc = native_read_tsc,
.read_pmc = native_read_pmc,
.read_tscp = native_read_tscp,
.load_tr_desc = native_load_tr_desc,
.set_ldt = native_set_ldt,
.load_gdt = native_load_gdt,