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Thomas Gleixner 2e27beeb66 timekeeping: Allow inlining clocksource::read()
On some architectures clocksource::read() boils down to a single
instruction, so the indirect function call is just a massive overhead
especially with speculative execution mitigations in effect.

Allow architectures to enable conditional inlining of that read to avoid
that by:

   - providing a static branch to switch to the inlined variant

   - disabling the branch before clocksource changes

   - enabling the branch after a clocksource change, when the clocksource
     indicates in a feature flag that it is the one which provides the
     inlined variant

This is intentionally not a static call as that would only remove the
indirect call, but not the rest of the overhead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224163429.675151545@kernel.org
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