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authorAdhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-04-22 09:29:33 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-04-23 16:05:05 +1000
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powerpc: Add VDSO version of time
On 04/18/2013 07:38 PM, Anton Blanchard wrote: > Since you are only reading one long you shouldn't need to check the > update count and loop, you will always see a consistent value. The > system call version of time() just does an unprotected load for example. Fixed. > With the above change and with Michael's comments covered (decent > changelog entry and Signed-off-by): > > Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Thanks for the review, below the updated patch: From: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com> This patch implement the time syscall as vDSO. The performance speedups are: Baseline PPC32: 380 nsec Baseline PPC64: 350 nsec vdso PPC32: 20 nsec vsdo PPC64: 20 nsec Tested on 64 bit build with both 32 bit and 64 bit userland. Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
index 1b2076f049ce..d4f463ac65b1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ static struct vdso_patch_def vdso_patches[] = {
CPU_FTR_USE_TB, 0,
"__kernel_get_tbfreq", NULL
},
+ {
+ CPU_FTR_USE_TB, 0,
+ "__kernel_time", NULL
+ },
};
/*