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    x86/asm/tsc: Add rdtscll() merge helper · 99770737
    Ingo Molnar authored
    Some in-flight code makes use of the old rdtscll() (now removed), provide a wrapper
    for a kernel cycle to smooth the transition to rdtsc().
    
    ( We use the safest variant, rdtsc_ordered(), which has barriers - this adds another
      incentive to remove the wrapper in the future. )
    
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: 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>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dddbf98a2af53312e9aa73a5a2b1622fe5d6f52b.1434501121.git.luto@kernel.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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