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, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index 75c5dd0138fd..050abfd5c17c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ int main(void)
         DEFINE(CFG_SYSCALL_MAP32, offsetof(struct vdso_data, syscall_map_32));
         DEFINE(WTOM_CLOCK_SEC, offsetof(struct vdso_data, wtom_clock_sec));
         DEFINE(WTOM_CLOCK_NSEC, offsetof(struct vdso_data, wtom_clock_nsec));
+        DEFINE(STAMP_XTIME, offsetof(struct vdso_data, stamp_xtime));
         DEFINE(CFG_ICACHE_BLOCKSZ, offsetof(struct vdso_data, icache_block_size));
         DEFINE(CFG_DCACHE_BLOCKSZ, offsetof(struct vdso_data, dcache_block_size));
         DEFINE(CFG_ICACHE_LOGBLOCKSZ, offsetof(struct vdso_data, icache_log_block_size));