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>

2 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S
index e97a9a0dc4ac..a76b4af37ef2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S
@@ -164,6 +164,32 @@ V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__kernel_clock_getres)
   .cfi_endproc
 V_FUNCTION_END(__kernel_clock_getres)
 
+/*
+ * Exact prototype of time()
+ *
+ * time_t time(time *t);
+ *
+ */
+V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__kernel_time)
+  .cfi_startproc
+        mflr    r12
+  .cfi_register lr,r12
+
+        mr      r11,r3                  /* r11 holds t */
+        bl      V_LOCAL_FUNC(__get_datapage)
+
+        ld      r4,STAMP_XTIME+TSPC64_TV_SEC(r3)
+
+        cmpldi  r11,0                   /* check if t is NULL */
+        beq     2f
+        std     r4,0(r11)               /* store result at *t */
+2:      mtlr    r12
+        crclr   cr0*4+so
+        mr      r3,r4
+        blr
+  .cfi_endproc
+V_FUNCTION_END(__kernel_time)
+
 
 /*
  * This is the core of clock_gettime() and gettimeofday(),
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S
index e6c1758f3588..e4863819663b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ VERSION
                 __kernel_sync_dicache_p5;
                 __kernel_sigtramp_rt64;
                 __kernel_getcpu;
+                __kernel_time;
 
         local: *;
         };