Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Handle sched_clock differences inline

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 01/03/2021 02:15, Michael Kelley wrote:
> While the Hyper-V Reference TSC code is architecture neutral, the
> pv_ops.time.sched_clock() function is implemented for x86/x64, but not
> for ARM64. Current code calls a utility function under arch/x86 (and
> coming, under arch/arm64) to handle the difference.
> 
> Change this approach to handle the difference inline based on whether
> GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK is present.  The new approach removes code under
> arch/* since the difference is tied more to the specifics of the Linux
> implementation than to the architecture.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

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> +/*
> + * Reference to pv_ops must be inline so objtool
> + * detection of noinstr violations can work correctly.
> + */
> +static __always_inline void hv_setup_sched_clock(void *sched_clock)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
> +	/*
> +	 * We're on an architecture with generic sched clock (not x86/x64).
> +	 * The Hyper-V sched clock read function returns nanoseconds, not
> +	 * the normal 100ns units of the Hyper-V synthetic clock.
> +	 */
> +	sched_clock_register(sched_clock, 64, NSEC_PER_SEC);
> +#else
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
> +	/* We're on x86/x64 *and* using PV ops */
> +	pv_ops.time.sched_clock = sched_clock;
> +#endif
> +#endif
> +}
Please refer to:

Documentation/process/coding-style.rst

Section 21)

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Prefer to compile out entire functions, rather than portions of
functions or portions of expressions.

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