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authorAdhemerval Zanella2013-04-22 09:29:33 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt2013-04-23 16:05:05 +1000
commitfcb41a2030abe0eb716ef0798035ef9562097f42 (patch)
tree4b063cc1cb872fb9609fd90485c7b602b9fdc57f /arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64
parentaf81d7878c641629f2693ae3fdaf74b4af14dfca (diff)
powerpc: Add VDSO version of time
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S26
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S1
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S
index e97a9a0dc4ac..a76b4af37ef2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S
@@ -164,6 +164,32 @@ V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__kernel_clock_getres)
.cfi_endproc
V_FUNCTION_END(__kernel_clock_getres)
+/*
+ * Exact prototype of time()
+ *
+ * time_t time(time *t);
+ *
+ */
+V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__kernel_time)
+ .cfi_startproc
+ mflr r12
+ .cfi_register lr,r12
+
+ mr r11,r3 /* r11 holds t */
+ bl V_LOCAL_FUNC(__get_datapage)
+
+ ld r4,STAMP_XTIME+TSPC64_TV_SEC(r3)
+
+ cmpldi r11,0 /* check if t is NULL */
+ beq 2f
+ std r4,0(r11) /* store result at *t */
+2: mtlr r12
+ crclr cr0*4+so
+ mr r3,r4
+ blr
+ .cfi_endproc
+V_FUNCTION_END(__kernel_time)
+
/*
* This is the core of clock_gettime() and gettimeofday(),
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S
index e6c1758f3588..e4863819663b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ VERSION
__kernel_sync_dicache_p5;
__kernel_sigtramp_rt64;
__kernel_getcpu;
+ __kernel_time;
local: *;
};