__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
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: a7f290dad3 ("[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
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>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
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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
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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>
Commit b5b4453e79 ("powerpc/vdso64: Fix CLOCK_MONOTONIC
inconsistencies across Y2038") changed the type of wtom_clock_sec
to s64 on PPC64. Therefore, VDSO32 needs to read it with a 4 bytes
shift in order to retrieve the lower part of it.
Fixes: b5b4453e79 ("powerpc/vdso64: Fix CLOCK_MONOTONIC inconsistencies across Y2038")
Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Call Frame Information is used by gdb for back-traces and inserting
breakpoints on function return for the "finish" command. This failed
when inside __kernel_clock_gettime. More concerning than difficulty
debugging is that CFI is also used by stack frame unwinding code to
implement exceptions. If you have an app that needs to handle
asynchronous exceptions for some reason, and you are unlucky enough to
get one inside the VDSO time functions, your app will crash.
What's wrong: There is control flow in __kernel_clock_gettime that
reaches label 99 without saving lr in r12. CFI info however is
interpreted by the unwinder without reference to control flow: It's a
simple matter of "Execute all the CFI opcodes up to the current
address". That means the unwinder thinks r12 contains the return
address at label 99. Disabuse it of that notion by resetting CFI for
the return address at label 99.
Note that the ".cfi_restore lr" could have gone anywhere from the
"mtlr r12" a few instructions earlier to the instruction at label 99.
I put the CFI as late as possible, because in general that's best
practice (and if possible grouped with other CFI in order to reduce
the number of CFI opcodes executed when unwinding). Using r12 as the
return address is perfectly fine after the "mtlr r12" since r12 on
that code path still contains the return address.
__get_datapage also has a CFI error. That function temporarily saves
lr in r0, and reflects that fact with ".cfi_register lr,r0". A later
use of r0 means the CFI at that point isn't correct, as r0 no longer
contains the return address. Fix that too.
Signed-off-by: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
The 8xx cannot access the TBL and TBU registers using mfspr/mtspr
It must be accessed using mftb/mftbu
Due to this, there is a number of places with #ifdef CONFIG_8xx
This patch defines new macros MFTBL(x) and MFTBU(x) on the same model
as MFTB(x) and tries to make use of them as much as possible.
In arch/powerpc/include/asm/timex.h, we also remove the ifdef
for the asm() operands as the compiler doesn't mind unused operands
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Commit beb2dc0a7a breaks the MPC8xx which
seems to not support using mfspr SPRN_TBRx instead of mftb/mftbu
despite what is written in the reference manual.
This patch reverts to the use of mftb/mftbu when CONFIG_8xx is
selected.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Some CPUs (such as e500v1/v2) don't implement mftb and will take a
trap. mfspr should work on everything that has a timebase, and is the
preferred instruction according to ISA v2.06.
Currently we get away with mftb on 85xx because the assembler converts
it to mfspr due to -Wa,-me500. However, that flag has other effects
that are undesireable for certain targets (e.g. lwsync is converted to
sync), and is hostile to multiplatform kernels. Thus we would like to
stop setting it for all e500-family builds.
mftb/mftbu instances which are in 85xx code or common code are
converted. Instances which will never run on 85xx are left alone.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
On 04/18/2013 07:38 PM, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Since you are only reading one long you shouldn't need to check the
> update count and loop, you will always see a consistent value. The
> system call version of time() just does an unprotected load for example.
Fixed.
> With the above change and with Michael's comments covered (decent
> changelog entry and Signed-off-by):
>
> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Thanks for the review, below the updated patch:
From: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch implement the time syscall as vDSO. The performance speedups
are:
Baseline PPC32: 380 nsec
Baseline PPC64: 350 nsec
vdso PPC32: 20 nsec
vsdo PPC64: 20 nsec
Tested on 64 bit build with both 32 bit and 64 bit userland.
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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>
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>
Consider the prototype for gettimeofday():
int gettimofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz);
Although it is valid to call with /either/ tv or tz being NULL, and
the C version of sys_gettimeofday() supports this, the current version
of gettimeofday() in the VDSO will SEGV if called with a NULL tv.
This adds a check for tv being NULL so that it doesn't SEGV.
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The vDSO functions should have the same calling convention as a syscall.
Unfortunately, they currently don't set the cr0.so bit which is used to
indicate an error. This patch makes them clear this bit unconditionally
since all functions currently succeed. The syscall fallback done by some
of them will eventually override this if the syscall fails.
This also changes the symbol version of all vdso exports to make sure
glibc can differenciate between old and fixed calls for existing ones
like __kernel_gettimeofday.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This fixes various errors in the new functions added in the vDSO's,
I've now verified all functions on both 32 and 64 bits vDSOs. It also
fix a sign extension bug getting the initial time of day at boot that
could cause the monotonic clock value to be completely on bogus for
64 bits applications (with either the vDSO or the syscall) on
powermacs.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This patch moves the vdso's to arch/powerpc, adds support for the 32
bits vdso to the 32 bits kernel, rename systemcfg (finally !), and adds
some new (still untested) routines to both vdso's: clock_gettime() with
support for CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, clock_getres() (same
clocks) and get_tbfreq() for glibc to retreive the timebase frequency.
Tom,Steve: The implementation of get_tbfreq() I've done for 32 bits
returns a long long (r3, r4) not a long. This is such that if we ever
add support for >4Ghz timebases on ppc32, the userland interface won't
have to change.
I have tested gettimeofday() using some glibc patches in both ppc32 and
ppc64 kernels using 32 bits userland (I haven't had a chance to test a
64 bits userland yet, but the implementation didn't change and was
tested earlier). I haven't tested yet the new functions.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Christophe Leroy