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x86/kvmclock: Remove memblock dependency
authorPavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 20:55:20 +0000 (16:55 -0400)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:02:36 +0000 (00:02 +0200)
commit368a540e0232ad446931f5a4e8a5e06f69f21343
tree8724da6be43dd468ab751d9208f93656f06aae5d
parent73ab603f44149ff48889d5109ea9ab64bf38cc69
x86/kvmclock: Remove memblock dependency

KVM clock is initialized later compared to other hypervisor clocks because
it has a dependency on the memblock allocator.

Bring it in line with other hypervisors by using memory from the BSS
instead of allocating it.

The benefits:

  - Remove ifdef from common code
  - Earlier availability of the clock
  - Remove dependency on memblock, and reduce code

The downside:

  - Static allocation of the per cpu data structures sized NR_CPUS * 64byte
    Will be addressed in follow up patches.

[ tglx: Split out from larger series ]

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com
Cc: daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: feng.tang@intel.com
Cc: pmladek@suse.com
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180719205545.16512-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c