[PATCH 08/14] vdso/gettimeofday: Introduce vdso_set_timespec()

From: Thomas Weißschuh
Date: Tue Jul 01 2025 - 05:01:11 EST


This code is duplicated and with the introduction of auxiliary clocks will
be duplicated even more.

Introduce a helper.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 32 ++++++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
index 215151bd5a1320ee6edda8f334d47c739577f696..50611ba28abfcfc7841616e8787101ea1ffcb7d8 100644
--- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
+++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
@@ -77,6 +77,16 @@ static __always_inline bool vdso_clockid_valid(clockid_t clock)
return likely((u32) clock < MAX_CLOCKS);
}

+/*
+ * Must not be invoked within the sequence read section as a race inside
+ * that loop could result in __iter_div_u64_rem() being extremely slow.
+ */
+static __always_inline void vdso_set_timespec(struct __kernel_timespec *ts, u64 sec, u64 ns)
+{
+ ts->tv_sec = sec + __iter_div_u64_rem(ns, NSEC_PER_SEC, &ns);
+ ts->tv_nsec = ns;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_TIME_NS

#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_VDSO_DATA_STORE
@@ -122,12 +132,7 @@ bool do_hres_timens(const struct vdso_time_data *vdns, const struct vdso_clock *
sec += offs->sec;
ns += offs->nsec;

- /*
- * Do this outside the loop: a race inside the loop could result
- * in __iter_div_u64_rem() being extremely slow.
- */
- ts->tv_sec = sec + __iter_div_u64_rem(ns, NSEC_PER_SEC, &ns);
- ts->tv_nsec = ns;
+ vdso_set_timespec(ts, sec, ns);

return true;
}
@@ -188,12 +193,7 @@ bool do_hres(const struct vdso_time_data *vd, const struct vdso_clock *vc,
sec = vdso_ts->sec;
} while (unlikely(vdso_read_retry(vc, seq)));

- /*
- * Do this outside the loop: a race inside the loop could result
- * in __iter_div_u64_rem() being extremely slow.
- */
- ts->tv_sec = sec + __iter_div_u64_rem(ns, NSEC_PER_SEC, &ns);
- ts->tv_nsec = ns;
+ vdso_set_timespec(ts, sec, ns);

return true;
}
@@ -223,12 +223,8 @@ bool do_coarse_timens(const struct vdso_time_data *vdns, const struct vdso_clock
sec += offs->sec;
nsec += offs->nsec;

- /*
- * Do this outside the loop: a race inside the loop could result
- * in __iter_div_u64_rem() being extremely slow.
- */
- ts->tv_sec = sec + __iter_div_u64_rem(nsec, NSEC_PER_SEC, &nsec);
- ts->tv_nsec = nsec;
+ vdso_set_timespec(ts, sec, nsec);
+
return true;
}
#else

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2.50.0