History log of /linux-master/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 74205b3f 31-Mar-2021 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/vdso: Add support for time namespaces

This patch adds the necessary glue to provide time namespaces.

Things are mainly copied from ARM64.

__arch_get_timens_vdso_data() calculates timens vdso data position
based on the vdso data position, knowing it is the next page in vvar.
This avoids having to redo the mflr/bcl/mflr/mtlr dance to locate
the page relative to running code position.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> # vDSO parts
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1a15495f80ec19a87b16cf874dbf7c3fa5ec40fe.1617209142.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# 550e6074 27-Sep-2020 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/vdso: Remove unused \tmp param in __get_datapage()

The \tmp param is not used anymore, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4b13f897dcccce8ae03c031a4598cf26b32e2f1c.1601197618.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# 591857b6 27-Sep-2020 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/vdso: Simplify __get_datapage()

The VDSO datapage and the text pages are always located immediately
next to each other, so it can be hardcoded without an indirection
through __kernel_datapage_offset

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b08f5ef99d64cfc38f79b7ad5310d9b4d2479eeb.1601197618.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# 1bb30b7a 27-Sep-2020 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/vdso: Rename syscall_map_32/64 to simplify vdso_setup_syscall_map()

Today vdso_data structure has:
- syscall_map_32[] and syscall_map_64[] on PPC64
- syscall_map_32[] on PPC32

On PPC32, syscall_map_32[] is populated using sys_call_table[].

On PPC64, syscall_map_64[] is populated using sys_call_table[]
and syscal_map_32[] is populated using compat_sys_call_table[].

To simplify vdso_setup_syscall_map(),
- On PPC32 rename syscall_map_32[] into syscall_map[],
- On PPC64 rename syscall_map_64[] into syscall_map[],
- On PPC64 rename syscall_map_32[] into compat_syscall_map[].

That way, syscall_map[] gets populated using sys_call_table[] and
compat_syscall_map[] gets population using compat_sys_call_table[].

Also define an empty compat_syscall_map[] on PPC32 to avoid ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/472734be0d9991eee320a06824219a5b2663736b.1601197618.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# ab037dd8 26-Nov-2020 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/vdso: Switch VDSO to generic C implementation.

With the C VDSO, the performance is slightly lower, but it is worth
it as it will ease maintenance and evolution, and also brings clocks
that are not supported with the ASM VDSO.

On an 8xx at 132 MHz, vdsotest with the ASM VDSO:
gettimeofday: vdso: 828 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 391 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 614 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 460 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 876 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 399 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 691 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 460 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 1026 nsec/call

On an 8xx at 132 MHz, vdsotest with the C VDSO:
gettimeofday: vdso: 955 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 545 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 592 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 545 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 941 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 545 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 591 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 545 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 940 nsec/call

It is even better for gettime with monotonic clocks.

Unsupported clocks with ASM VDSO:
clock-gettime-boottime: vdso: 3851 nsec/call
clock-gettime-tai: vdso: 3852 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw: vdso: 3396 nsec/call

Same clocks with C VDSO:
clock-gettime-tai: vdso: 941 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw: vdso: 1001 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 591 nsec/call

On an 8321E at 333 MHz, vdsotest with the ASM VDSO:
gettimeofday: vdso: 220 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 102 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 178 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 129 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 235 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 105 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 208 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 129 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 274 nsec/call

On an 8321E at 333 MHz, vdsotest with the C VDSO:
gettimeofday: vdso: 272 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 160 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 184 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 166 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 281 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 160 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 184 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 169 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 275 nsec/call

On a Power9 Nimbus DD2.2 at 3.8GHz, with the ASM VDSO:
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 35 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 16 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 18 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 522 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw: vdso: 598 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-raw: vdso: 520 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 34 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 16 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 18 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 517 nsec/call
getcpu: vdso: 8 nsec/call
gettimeofday: vdso: 25 nsec/call

And with the C VDSO:
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 37 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 20 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 21 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 19 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw: vdso: 38 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-raw: vdso: 20 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 37 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 20 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 20 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 19 nsec/call
getcpu: vdso: 8 nsec/call
gettimeofday: vdso: 28 nsec/call

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126131006.2431205-8-mpe@ellerman.id.au


# 2c29eef9 02-Dec-2019 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>

powerpc/vdso32: Don't read cache line size from the datapage on PPC32.

On PPC32, the cache lines have a fixed size known at build time.

Don't read it from the datapage.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dfa7b35e27e01964fcda84bf1ed8b2b31cf93826.1575273217.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr


# ec0895f0 02-Dec-2019 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>

powerpc/vdso32: inline __get_datapage()

__get_datapage() is only a few instructions to retrieve the
address of the page where the kernel stores data to the VDSO.

By inlining this function into its users, a bl/blr pair and
a mflr/mtlr pair is avoided, plus a few reg moves.

The improvement is noticeable (about 55 nsec/call on an 8xx)

vdsotest before the patch:
gettimeofday: vdso: 731 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 668 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 745 nsec/call

vdsotest after the patch:
gettimeofday: vdso: 677 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 613 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 690 nsec/call

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c39ef7f3dfa25356b01e211d539671f279086c09.1575273217.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr


# 55226345 02-Dec-2019 Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>

powerpc: Fix vDSO clock_getres()

clock_getres in the vDSO library has to preserve the same behaviour
of posix_get_hrtimer_res().

In particular, posix_get_hrtimer_res() does:
sec = 0;
ns = hrtimer_resolution;
and hrtimer_resolution depends on the enablement of the high
resolution timers that can happen either at compile or at run time.

Fix the powerpc vdso implementation of clock_getres keeping a copy of
hrtimer_resolution in vdso data and using that directly.

Fixes: a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
[chleroy: changed CLOCK_REALTIME_RES to CLOCK_HRTIMER_RES]
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a55eca3a5e85233838c2349783bcb5164dae1d09.1575273217.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr


# 176ed98c 27-Oct-2019 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

y2038: vdso: powerpc: avoid timespec references

As a preparation to stop using 'struct timespec' in the kernel,
change the powerpc vdso implementation:

- split up the vdso data definition to have equivalent members
for seconds and nanoseconds instead of an xtime structure

- use timespec64 as an intermediate for the xtime update

- change the asm-offsets definition to be based the appropriate
fixed-length types

This is only a temporary fix for changing the types, in order
to actually support a 64-bit safe vdso32 version of clock_gettime(),
the entire powerpc vdso should be replaced with the generic
lib/vdso/ implementation. If that happens first, this patch
becomes obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


# 2874c5fd 27-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# b5b4453e 13-Mar-2019 Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

powerpc/vdso64: Fix CLOCK_MONOTONIC inconsistencies across Y2038

Jakub Drnec reported:
Setting the realtime clock can sometimes make the monotonic clock go
back by over a hundred years. Decreasing the realtime clock across
the y2k38 threshold is one reliable way to reproduce. Allegedly this
can also happen just by running ntpd, I have not managed to
reproduce that other than booting with rtc at >2038 and then running
ntp. When this happens, anything with timers (e.g. openjdk) breaks
rather badly.

And included a test case (slightly edited for brevity):
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309L
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

long get_time(void) {
struct timespec tp;
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &tp);
return tp.tv_sec + tp.tv_nsec / 1000000000;
}

int main(void) {
long last = get_time();
while(1) {
long now = get_time();
if (now < last) {
printf("clock went backwards by %ld seconds!\n", last - now);
}
last = now;
sleep(1);
}
return 0;
}

Which when run concurrently with:
# date -s 2040-1-1
# date -s 2037-1-1

Will detect the clock going backward.

The root cause is that wtom_clock_sec in struct vdso_data is only a
32-bit signed value, even though we set its value to be equal to
tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec which is 64-bits.

Because the monotonic clock starts at zero when the system boots the
wall_to_montonic.tv_sec offset is negative for current and future
dates. Currently on a freshly booted system the offset will be in the
vicinity of negative 1.5 billion seconds.

However if the wall clock is set past the Y2038 boundary, the offset
from wall to monotonic becomes less than negative 2^31, and no longer
fits in 32-bits. When that value is assigned to wtom_clock_sec it is
truncated and becomes positive, causing the VDSO assembly code to
calculate CLOCK_MONOTONIC incorrectly.

That causes CLOCK_MONOTONIC to jump ahead by ~4 billion seconds which
it is not meant to do. Worse, if the time is then set back before the
Y2038 boundary CLOCK_MONOTONIC will jump backward.

We can fix it simply by storing the full 64-bit offset in the
vdso_data, and using that in the VDSO assembly code. We also shuffle
some of the fields in vdso_data to avoid creating a hole.

The original commit that added the CLOCK_MONOTONIC support to the VDSO
did actually use a 64-bit value for wtom_clock_sec, see commit
a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to
32 bits kernel") (Nov 2005). However just 3 days later it was
converted to 32-bits in commit 0c37ec2aa88b ("[PATCH] powerpc: vdso
fixes (take #2)"), and the bug has existed since then AFAICS.

Fixes: 0c37ec2aa88b ("[PATCH] powerpc: vdso fixes (take #2)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.15+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/HaC.ZfES.62bwlnvAvMP.1STMMj@seznam.cz
Reported-by: Jakub Drnec <jaydee@email.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# f43194e4 18-Nov-2015 Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>

powerpc: Standardise on NR_syscalls rather than __NR_syscalls.

Most architectures use NR_syscalls as the #define for the number of syscalls.

We use __NR_syscalls, and then define NR_syscalls as __NR_syscalls.

__NR_syscalls is not used outside arch code, whereas NR_syscalls is. So as
NR_syscalls must be defined and __NR_syscalls does not, replace __NR_syscalls
with NR_syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 25985edc 30-Mar-2011 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>

Fix common misspellings

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>


# 56e640de 05-Sep-2010 Christian Dietrich <qy03fugy@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

powerpc: Removing undead ifdef __KERNEL__

The __KERNEL__ ifdef isn't necessary at this point, because it is
checked in an outer ifdef level already and has no effect here.

Signed-off-by: Christian Dietrich <qy03fugy@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# 0e469db8 20-Jun-2010 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

powerpc: Rework VDSO gettimeofday to prevent time going backwards

Currently it is possible for userspace to see the result of
gettimeofday() going backwards by 1 microsecond, assuming that
userspace is using the gettimeofday() in the VDSO. The VDSO
gettimeofday() algorithm computes the time in "xsecs", which are
units of 2^-20 seconds, or approximately 0.954 microseconds,
using the algorithm

now = (timebase - tb_orig_stamp) * tb_to_xs + stamp_xsec

and then converts the time in xsecs to seconds and microseconds.

The kernel updates the tb_orig_stamp and stamp_xsec values every
tick in update_vsyscall(). If the length of the tick is not an
integer number of xsecs, then some precision is lost in converting
the current time to xsecs. For example, with CONFIG_HZ=1000, the
tick is 1ms long, which is 1048.576 xsecs. That means that
stamp_xsec will advance by either 1048 or 1049 on each tick.
With the right conditions, it is possible for userspace to get
(timebase - tb_orig_stamp) * tb_to_xs being 1049 if the kernel is
slightly late in updating the vdso_datapage, and then for stamp_xsec
to advance by 1048 when the kernel does update it, and for userspace
to then see (timebase - tb_orig_stamp) * tb_to_xs being zero due to
integer truncation. The result is that time appears to go backwards
by 1 microsecond.

To fix this we change the VDSO gettimeofday to use a new field in the
VDSO datapage which stores the nanoseconds part of the time as a
fractional number of seconds in a 0.32 binary fraction format.
(Or put another way, as a 32-bit number in units of 0.23283 ns.)
This is convenient because we can use the mulhwu instruction to
convert it to either microseconds or nanoseconds.

Since it turns out that computing the time of day using this new field
is simpler than either using stamp_xsec (as gettimeofday does) or
stamp_xtime.tv_nsec (as clock_gettime does), this converts both
gettimeofday and clock_gettime to use the new field. The existing
__do_get_tspec function is converted to use the new field and take
a parameter in r7 that indicates the desired resolution, 1,000,000
for microseconds or 1,000,000,000 for nanoseconds. The __do_get_xsec
function is then unused and is deleted.

The new algorithm is

now = ((timebase - tb_orig_stamp) << 12) * tb_to_xs
+ (stamp_xtime_seconds << 32) + stamp_sec_fraction

with 'now' in units of 2^-32 seconds. That is then converted to
seconds and either microseconds or nanoseconds with

seconds = now >> 32
partseconds = ((now & 0xffffffff) * resolution) >> 32

The 32-bit VDSO code also makes a further simplification: it ignores
the bottom 32 bits of the tb_to_xs value, which is a 0.64 format binary
fraction. Doing so gets rid of 4 multiply instructions. Assuming
a timebase frequency of 1GHz or less and an update interval of no
more than 10ms, the upper 32 bits of tb_to_xs will be at least
4503599, so the error from ignoring the low 32 bits will be at most
2.2ns, which is more than an order of magnitude less than the time
taken to do gettimeofday or clock_gettime on our fastest processors,
so there is no possibility of seeing inconsistent values due to this.

This also moves update_gtod() down next to its only caller, and makes
update_vsyscall use the time passed in via the wall_time argument rather
than accessing xtime directly. At present, wall_time always points to
xtime, but that could change in future.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# 8fd63a9e 20-Jun-2010 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

powerpc: Rework VDSO gettimeofday to prevent time going backwards

Currently it is possible for userspace to see the result of
gettimeofday() going backwards by 1 microsecond, assuming that
userspace is using the gettimeofday() in the VDSO. The VDSO
gettimeofday() algorithm computes the time in "xsecs", which are
units of 2^-20 seconds, or approximately 0.954 microseconds,
using the algorithm

now = (timebase - tb_orig_stamp) * tb_to_xs + stamp_xsec

and then converts the time in xsecs to seconds and microseconds.

The kernel updates the tb_orig_stamp and stamp_xsec values every
tick in update_vsyscall(). If the length of the tick is not an
integer number of xsecs, then some precision is lost in converting
the current time to xsecs. For example, with CONFIG_HZ=1000, the
tick is 1ms long, which is 1048.576 xsecs. That means that
stamp_xsec will advance by either 1048 or 1049 on each tick.
With the right conditions, it is possible for userspace to get
(timebase - tb_orig_stamp) * tb_to_xs being 1049 if the kernel is
slightly late in updating the vdso_datapage, and then for stamp_xsec
to advance by 1048 when the kernel does update it, and for userspace
to then see (timebase - tb_orig_stamp) * tb_to_xs being zero due to
integer truncation. The result is that time appears to go backwards
by 1 microsecond.

To fix this we change the VDSO gettimeofday to use a new field in the
VDSO datapage which stores the nanoseconds part of the time as a
fractional number of seconds in a 0.32 binary fraction format.
(Or put another way, as a 32-bit number in units of 0.23283 ns.)
This is convenient because we can use the mulhwu instruction to
convert it to either microseconds or nanoseconds.

Since it turns out that computing the time of day using this new field
is simpler than either using stamp_xsec (as gettimeofday does) or
stamp_xtime.tv_nsec (as clock_gettime does), this converts both
gettimeofday and clock_gettime to use the new field. The existing
__do_get_tspec function is converted to use the new field and take
a parameter in r7 that indicates the desired resolution, 1,000,000
for microseconds or 1,000,000,000 for nanoseconds. The __do_get_xsec
function is then unused and is deleted.

The new algorithm is

now = ((timebase - tb_orig_stamp) << 12) * tb_to_xs
+ (stamp_xtime_seconds << 32) + stamp_sec_fraction

with 'now' in units of 2^-32 seconds. That is then converted to
seconds and either microseconds or nanoseconds with

seconds = now >> 32
partseconds = ((now & 0xffffffff) * resolution) >> 32

The 32-bit VDSO code also makes a further simplification: it ignores
the bottom 32 bits of the tb_to_xs value, which is a 0.64 format binary
fraction. Doing so gets rid of 4 multiply instructions. Assuming
a timebase frequency of 1GHz or less and an update interval of no
more than 10ms, the upper 32 bits of tb_to_xs will be at least
4503599, so the error from ignoring the low 32 bits will be at most
2.2ns, which is more than an order of magnitude less than the time
taken to do gettimeofday or clock_gettime on our fastest processors,
so there is no possibility of seeing inconsistent values due to this.

This also moves update_gtod() down next to its only caller, and makes
update_vsyscall use the time passed in via the wall_time argument rather
than accessing xtime directly. At present, wall_time always points to
xtime, but that could change in future.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# 597bc5c0 27-Oct-2008 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

powerpc: Improve resolution of VDSO clock_gettime

Currently the clock_gettime implementation in the VDSO produces a
result with microsecond resolution for the cases that are handled
without a system call, i.e. CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC. The
nanoseconds field of the result is obtained by computing a
microseconds value and multiplying by 1000.

This changes the code in the VDSO to do the computation for
clock_gettime with nanosecond resolution. That means that the
resolution of the result will ultimately depend on the timebase
frequency.

Because the timestamp in the VDSO datapage (stamp_xsec, the real time
corresponding to the timebase count in tb_orig_stamp) is in units of
2^-20 seconds, it doesn't have sufficient resolution for computing a
result with nanosecond resolution. Therefore this adds a copy of
xtime to the VDSO datapage and updates it in update_gtod() along with
the other time-related fields.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>


# b8b572e1 31-Jul-2008 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm

from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a

mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm

Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>