powerpc: Improve resolution of VDSO clock_gettime

Currently the clock_gettime implementation in the VDSO produces a
result with microsecond resolution for the cases that are handled
without a system call, i.e. CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC.  The
nanoseconds field of the result is obtained by computing a
microseconds value and multiplying by 1000.

This changes the code in the VDSO to do the computation for
clock_gettime with nanosecond resolution.  That means that the
resolution of the result will ultimately depend on the timebase
frequency.

Because the timestamp in the VDSO datapage (stamp_xsec, the real time
corresponding to the timebase count in tb_orig_stamp) is in units of
2^-20 seconds, it doesn't have sufficient resolution for computing a
result with nanosecond resolution.  Therefore this adds a copy of
xtime to the VDSO datapage and updates it in update_gtod() along with
the other time-related fields.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h
index f01393224b52..13c2c283e178 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
 #include <linux/unistd.h>
+#include <linux/time.h>
 
 #define SYSCALL_MAP_SIZE      ((__NR_syscalls + 31) / 32)
 
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ struct vdso_data {
         __u32 icache_log_block_size;            /* L1 i-cache log block size */
         __s32 wtom_clock_sec;                   /* Wall to monotonic clock */
         __s32 wtom_clock_nsec;
+        struct timespec stamp_xtime;    /* xtime as at tb_orig_stamp */
         __u32 syscall_map_64[SYSCALL_MAP_SIZE]; /* map of syscalls  */
         __u32 syscall_map_32[SYSCALL_MAP_SIZE]; /* map of syscalls */
 };
@@ -102,6 +104,7 @@ struct vdso_data {
         __u32 tz_dsttime;               /* Type of dst correction       0x5C */
         __s32 wtom_clock_sec;                   /* Wall to monotonic clock */
         __s32 wtom_clock_nsec;
+        struct timespec stamp_xtime;    /* xtime as at tb_orig_stamp */
         __u32 syscall_map_32[SYSCALL_MAP_SIZE]; /* map of syscalls */
         __u32 dcache_block_size;        /* L1 d-cache block size     */
         __u32 icache_block_size;        /* L1 i-cache block size     */