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MIPS: VDSO: Add implementations of gettimeofday() and clock_gettime()
Add user-mode implementations of gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() to the VDSO. This is currently usable with 2 clocksources: the CP0 count register, which is accessible to user-mode via RDHWR on R2 and later cores, or the MIPS Global Interrupt Controller (GIC) timer, which provides a "user-mode visible" section containing a mirror of its counter registers. This section must be mapped into user memory, which is done below the VDSO data page. When a supported clocksource is not in use, the VDSO functions will return -ENOSYS, which causes libc to fall back on the standard syscall path. When support for neither of these clocksources is compiled into the kernel at all, the VDSO still provides clock_gettime(), as the coarse realtime/monotonic clocks can still be implemented. However, gettimeofday() is not provided in this case as nothing can be done without a suitable clocksource. This causes the symbol lookup to fail in libc and it will then always use the standard syscall path. This patch includes a workaround for a bug in QEMU which results in RDHWR on the CP0 count register always returning a constant (incorrect) value. A fix for this has been submitted, and the workaround can be removed after the fix has been in stable releases for a reasonable amount of time. A simple performance test which calls gettimeofday() 1000 times in a loop and calculates the average execution time gives the following results on a Malta + I6400 (running at 20MHz): - Syscall: ~31000 ns - VDSO (GIC): ~15000 ns - VDSO (CP0): ~9500 ns [markos.chandras@imgtec.com: - Minor code re-arrangements in order for mappings to be made in the order they appear to the process' address space. - Move do_{monotonic, realtime} outside of the MIPS_CLOCK_VSYSCALL ifdef - Use gic_get_usm_range so we can do the GIC mapping in the arch/mips/kernel/vdso instead of the GIC irqchip driver] Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11338/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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* Copyright (C) 2015 Imagination Technologies | ||
* Author: Alex Smith <alex.smith@imgtec.com> | ||
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* 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. | ||
*/ | ||
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#ifndef __ASM_CLOCKSOURCE_H | ||
#define __ASM_CLOCKSOURCE_H | ||
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#include <linux/types.h> | ||
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/* VDSO clocksources. */ | ||
#define VDSO_CLOCK_NONE 0 /* No suitable clocksource. */ | ||
#define VDSO_CLOCK_R4K 1 /* Use the coprocessor 0 count. */ | ||
#define VDSO_CLOCK_GIC 2 /* Use the GIC. */ | ||
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/** | ||
* struct arch_clocksource_data - Architecture-specific clocksource information. | ||
* @vdso_clock_mode: Method the VDSO should use to access the clocksource. | ||
*/ | ||
struct arch_clocksource_data { | ||
u8 vdso_clock_mode; | ||
}; | ||
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#endif /* __ASM_CLOCKSOURCE_H */ |
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