x86: re-add rdmsrl_safe
RDMSR for 64bit values with exception handling.
Makes it easier to deal with 64bit valued MSRs. The old 64bit code
base had that too as checking_rdmsrl(), but it got dropped somehow.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: andreas.herrmann3@amd.com
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/paravirt.h b/include/asm-x86/paravirt.h
index 0c23f79..3d41939 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/paravirt.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/paravirt.h
@@ -693,6 +693,13 @@
_err; \
})
+static inline int rdmsrl_safe(unsigned msr, unsigned long long *p)
+{
+ int err;
+
+ *p = paravirt_read_msr(msr, &err);
+ return err;
+}
static inline u64 paravirt_read_tsc(void)
{