arch/x86/kernel/vread_tsc_64.c

/* This code runs in userspace. */

#define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
#include <asm/vgtod.h>

notrace cycle_t __vsyscall_fn vread_tsc(void)
{
	cycle_t ret;
	u64 last;

	/*
	 * Empirically, a fence (of type that depends on the CPU)
	 * before rdtsc is enough to ensure that rdtsc is ordered
	 * with respect to loads.  The various CPU manuals are unclear
	 * as to whether rdtsc can be reordered with later loads,
	 * but no one has ever seen it happen.
	 */
	rdtsc_barrier();
	ret = (cycle_t)vget_cycles();

	last = VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).clock.cycle_last;

	if (likely(ret >= last))
		return ret;

	/*
	 * GCC likes to generate cmov here, but this branch is extremely
	 * predictable (it's just a funciton of time and the likely is
	 * very likely) and there's a data dependence, so force GCC
	 * to generate a branch instead.  I don't barrier() because
	 * we don't actually need a barrier, and if this function
	 * ever gets inlined it will generate worse code.
	 */
	asm volatile ("");
	return last;
}