alistair23-linux/arch/x86/include
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
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asm x86: pvclock: Really remove the sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations 2015-04-27 15:49:30 +02:00
uapi/asm Char/Misc driver patches for 4.1-rc1 2015-04-21 09:42:58 -07:00