Re: [patch 11/11] x66/vdso: Add CLOCK_TAI support

[Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>]

> On Sep 14, 2018, at 5:50 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> With the storage array in place it's now trivial to support CLOCK_TAI in
> the vdso. Instead of extending the array to accomodate CLOCK_TAI, make use
> of the fact that:
> 
> - CLOCK ids are set in stone
> - CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME is never going to be supported in the VDSO so
>   the array slot 3 is unused
> - CLOCK_TAI is id 11 which results in 3 when masked with 0x3
> 
> Add the mask to the basetime array lookup and set up the CLOCK_TAI base
> time in update_vsyscall().

That’s... horrible. In an amazing way. Can you add BUILD_BUG_ON somewhere to assert that this actually works?

> 
> The performance impact of the mask operation is within the noise.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> ---
> arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c    |    2 +-
> arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_gtod.c |    4 ++++
> arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h            |    6 +++++-
> 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
> @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ notrace static inline u64 vgetcyc(int mo
> 
> notrace static int do_hres(clockid_t clk, struct timespec *ts)
> {
> -    struct vgtod_ts *base = &gtod->basetime[clk];
> +    struct vgtod_ts *base = &gtod->basetime[clk & VGTOD_HRES_MASK];
>    u64 cycles, last, ns;
>    unsigned int seq;
> 
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_gtod.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_gtod.c
> @@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *
>    base->sec = tk->xtime_sec;
>    base->nsec = tk->tkr_mono.xtime_nsec;
> 
> +    base = &vdata->basetime[VGTOD_TAI];
> +    base->sec = tk->xtime_sec + (s64)tk->tai_offset;
> +    base->nsec = tk->tkr_mono.xtime_nsec;
> +
>    base = &vdata->basetime[CLOCK_MONOTONIC];
>    base->sec = tk->xtime_sec + tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec;
>    nsec = tk->tkr_mono.xtime_nsec;
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
> @@ -19,9 +19,13 @@ struct vgtod_ts {
> };
> 
> #define VGTOD_BASES    (CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE + 1)
> -#define VGTOD_HRES    (BIT(CLOCK_REALTIME) | BIT(CLOCK_MONOTONIC))
> +#define VGTOD_HRES    (BIT(CLOCK_REALTIME) | BIT(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) | BIT(CLOCK_TAI))
> #define VGTOD_COARSE    (BIT(CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE) | BIT(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE))
> 
> +/* Abuse CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID for VGTOD CLOCK TAI */
> +#define VGTOD_HRES_MASK    0x3
> +#define VGTOD_TAI    (CLOCK_TAI & VGTOD_HRES_MASK)
> +
> /*
>  * vsyscall_gtod_data will be accessed by 32 and 64 bit code at the same time
>  * so be carefull by modifying this structure.
> 
>