[tip: timers/core] lib/vdso: Allow architectures to override the ns shift operation

From: tip-bot2 for Christophe Leroy
Date: Mon Feb 17 2020 - 10:12:51 EST


The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: d34b9b611b4c23816dde3c8bde531d7e8a5c27f5
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/d34b9b611b4c23816dde3c8bde531d7e8a5c27f5
Author: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:39:03 +01:00
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:40:28 +01:00

lib/vdso: Allow architectures to override the ns shift operation

On powerpc/32, GCC (8.1) generates pretty bad code for the ns >>= vd->shift
operation taking into account that the shift is always <= 32 and the upper
part of the result is likely to be zero. GCC makes reversed assumptions
considering the shift to be likely >= 32 and the upper part to be like not
zero.

unsigned long long shift(unsigned long long x, unsigned char s)
{
return x >> s;
}

results in:

00000018 <shift>:
18: 35 25 ff e0 addic. r9,r5,-32
1c: 41 80 00 10 blt 2c <shift+0x14>
20: 7c 64 4c 30 srw r4,r3,r9
24: 38 60 00 00 li r3,0
28: 4e 80 00 20 blr
2c: 54 69 08 3c rlwinm r9,r3,1,0,30
30: 21 45 00 1f subfic r10,r5,31
34: 7c 84 2c 30 srw r4,r4,r5
38: 7d 29 50 30 slw r9,r9,r10
3c: 7c 63 2c 30 srw r3,r3,r5
40: 7d 24 23 78 or r4,r9,r4
44: 4e 80 00 20 blr

Even when forcing the shift to be smaller than 32 with an &= 31, it still
considers the shift as likely >= 32.

Move the default shift implementation into an inline which can be redefined
in architecture code via a macro.

[ tglx: Made the shift argument u32 and removed the __arch prefix ]

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b3d449de856982ed060a71e6ace8eeca4654e685.1580399657.git.christophe.leroy@xxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207124403.857649978@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


---
lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
index 8eb6d1e..b95aef9 100644
--- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
+++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ u64 vdso_calc_delta(u64 cycles, u64 last, u64 mask, u32 mult)
}
#endif

+#ifndef vdso_shift_ns
+static __always_inline u64 vdso_shift_ns(u64 ns, u32 shift)
+{
+ return ns >> shift;
+}
+#endif
+
#ifndef __arch_vdso_hres_capable
static inline bool __arch_vdso_hres_capable(void)
{
@@ -80,7 +87,7 @@ static int do_hres_timens(const struct vdso_data *vdns, clockid_t clk,
ns = vdso_ts->nsec;
last = vd->cycle_last;
ns += vdso_calc_delta(cycles, last, vd->mask, vd->mult);
- ns >>= vd->shift;
+ ns = vdso_shift_ns(ns, vd->shift);
sec = vdso_ts->sec;
} while (unlikely(vdso_read_retry(vd, seq)));

@@ -148,7 +155,7 @@ static __always_inline int do_hres(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk,
ns = vdso_ts->nsec;
last = vd->cycle_last;
ns += vdso_calc_delta(cycles, last, vd->mask, vd->mult);
- ns >>= vd->shift;
+ ns = vdso_shift_ns(ns, vd->shift);
sec = vdso_ts->sec;
} while (unlikely(vdso_read_retry(vd, seq)));