linux/arch/x86
Paolo Bonzini 73459e2a1a x86: pvclock: Really remove the sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations
This reverts commits 0a4e6be9ca
and 80f7fdb1c7.

The task migration notifier was originally introduced in order to support
the pvclock vsyscall with non-synchronized TSC, but KVM only supports it
with synchronized TSC.  Hence, on KVM the race condition is only needed
due to a bad implementation on the host side, and even then it's so rare
that it's mostly theoretical.

As far as KVM is concerned it's possible to fix the host, avoiding the
additional complexity in the vDSO and the (re)introduction of the task
migration notifier.

Xen, on the other hand, hasn't yet implemented vsyscall support at
all, so we do not care about its plans for non-synchronized TSC.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-04-27 15:49:30 +02:00
..
boot Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-04-13 13:19:10 -07:00
configs x86/build/defconfig: Enable USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED=y 2015-02-19 02:21:14 +01:00
crypto crypto: x86/sha512_ssse3 - fixup for asm function prototype change 2015-04-24 20:09:01 +08:00
ia32 x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor attribute issue 2015-04-26 17:57:38 -07:00
include x86: pvclock: Really remove the sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations 2015-04-27 15:49:30 +02:00
kernel x86: pvclock: Really remove the sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations 2015-04-27 15:49:30 +02:00
kvm kvm: x86: fix kvmclock update protocol 2015-04-27 15:48:59 +02:00
lguest Some virtio internal cleanups, a new virtio device "virtio input", and 2015-04-22 10:55:06 -07:00
lib x86: fix special __probe_kernel_write() tail zeroing case 2015-04-24 06:58:27 -07:00
math-emu
mm mm: move memtest under mm 2015-04-14 16:49:06 -07:00
net
oprofile x86/asm/entry: Change all 'user_mode_vm()' calls to 'user_mode()' 2015-03-23 11:14:17 +01:00
pci PCI changes for the v4.1 merge window: 2015-04-13 15:45:47 -07:00
platform TTY/Serial patches for 4.1-rc1 2015-04-21 09:33:10 -07:00
power x86/asm/entry: Rename 'init_tss' to 'cpu_tss' 2015-03-06 08:32:58 +01:00
purgatory
realmode Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-16 14:58:12 -08:00
syscalls xen: features and fixes for 4.1-rc0 2015-04-16 14:01:03 -05:00
tools x86, build: replace Perl script with Shell script 2015-01-26 13:37:18 -08:00
um Merge branch 'exec_domain_rip_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2015-04-15 13:53:55 -07:00
vdso x86: pvclock: Really remove the sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations 2015-04-27 15:49:30 +02:00
video
xen xen: features and fixes for 4.1-rc0 2015-04-16 14:01:03 -05:00
.gitignore
Kbuild
Kconfig Initial ACPI support for arm64: 2015-04-24 08:23:45 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug x86, intel-mid: remove Intel MID specific serial support 2015-03-07 03:25:18 +01:00
Makefile kbuild: use relative path more to include Makefile 2015-04-02 16:42:08 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um kbuild: use relative path more to include Makefile 2015-04-02 16:42:08 +02:00