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use the ARM vdso to improve performance

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help wanted OpSys-ARM Performance Type-Feature
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Description

The ARM vdso page contains utility functions (xref http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/vdso.7.html).

% grep ^kuser linux-git/Documentation/arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt
kuser_helper_version
kuser_get_tls
kuser_cmpxchg
kuser_memory_barrier
kuser_cmpxchg64

Unfortunately there are no time or clock routines like are present for x86 (for #1581).

This is the most useful one as it should be faster than pipeline-stalling coproc instructions:

kuser_get_tls
Get the TLS value as previously set via the __ARM_NR_set_tls syscall.

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