Merge tag 'pr-20141223-x86-vdso' of...
Merge tag 'pr-20141223-x86-vdso' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux into x86/urgent Pull VDSO fix from Andy Lutomirski: "This is hopefully the last vdso fix for 3.19. It should be very safe (it just adds a volatile). I don't think it fixes an actual bug (the __getcpu calls in the pvclock code may not have been needed in the first place), but discussion on that point is ongoing. It also fixes a big performance issue in 3.18 and earlier in which the lsl instructions in vclock_gettime got hoisted so far up the function that they happened even when the function they were in was never called. n 3.19, the performance issue seems to be gone due to the whims of my compiler and some interaction with a branch that's now gone. I'll hopefully have a much bigger overhaul of the pvclock code for 3.20, but it needs careful review." Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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