x86: prefer RDTSCP in rdtsc_ordered()

If available, its use is supposed to be cheaper than LFENCE+RDTSC, and
is virtually guaranteed to be cheaper than MFENCE+RDTSC.

Update commentary (and indentation) while there.

Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
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@@ -108,18 +108,24 @@ static inline uint64_t rdtsc(void)
static inline uint64_t rdtsc_ordered(void)
{
/*
* The RDTSC instruction is not ordered relative to memory access.
* The Intel SDM and the AMD APM are both vague on this point, but
* empirically an RDTSC instruction can be speculatively executed
* before prior loads. An RDTSC immediately after an appropriate
* barrier appears to be ordered as a normal load, that is, it
* provides the same ordering guarantees as reading from a global
* memory location that some other imaginary CPU is updating
* continuously with a time stamp.
*/
alternative("lfence", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC);
return rdtsc();
uint64_t low, high, aux;
/*
* The RDTSC instruction is not serializing. Make it dispatch serializing
* for the purposes here by issuing LFENCE (or MFENCE if necessary) ahead
* of it.
*
* RDTSCP, otoh, "does wait until all previous instructions have executed
* and all previous loads are globally visible" (SDM) / "forces all older
* instructions to retire before reading the timestamp counter" (APM).
*/
alternative_io_2("lfence; rdtsc",
"mfence; rdtsc", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC,
"rdtscp", X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP,
ASM_OUTPUT2("=a" (low), "=d" (high), "=c" (aux)),
/* no inputs */);
return (high << 32) | low;
}
#define __write_tsc(val) wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_TSC, val)
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