Pull VDSO infrastructure updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Consolidate the VDSO storage
The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance
effort and causes inconsistencies over and over.
There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts
and implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
duplicated code for managing the mappings.
Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
functionalities without conflict and interaction.
- Rework the timekeeping data storage
The current implementation is designed for exposing system
timekeeping accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was
designed.
PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related
to system timekeeping.
Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.
* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
sparc/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
x86/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
vdso: Rework struct vdso_time_data and introduce struct vdso_clock
vdso: Move architecture related data before basetime data
powerpc/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
arm64/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
x86/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
time/namespace: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/namespace: Rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to reflect new vdso_clock struct
vdso/vsyscall: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare helper functions for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/helpers: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/datapage: Define vdso_clock to prepare for multiple PTP clocks
vdso: Make vdso_time_data cacheline aligned
arm64: Make asm/cache.h compatible with vDSO
...
While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with UAPI headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on
the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now.
This is mostly a mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i"
statement), with some manual tweaks in <asm/frame.h>, <asm/hw_irq.h>
and <asm/setup.h> that mentioned this macro in comments with some
missing underscores.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-38-thuth@redhat.com
To support multiple PTP clocks, the VDSO data structure needs to be
reworked. All clock specific data will end up in struct vdso_clock and in
struct vdso_time_data there will be array of VDSO clocks. At the moment,
vdso_clock is simply a define which maps vdso_clock to vdso_time_data.
To prepare for the rework of the data structures, replace the struct
vdso_time_data pointer with a struct vdso_clock pointer where applicable.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250303-vdso-clock-v1-15-c1b5c69a166f@linutronix.de
The vclock pages are *after* the non-vclock pages. Currently there are both
two vclock and two non-vclock pages so the existing logic works by
accident. As soon as the number of pages changes it will break however.
This will be the case with the introduction of the generic vDSO data
storage.
Use a macro to keep the calculation understandable and in sync between
the linker script and mapping code.
Fixes: e93d2521b2 ("x86/vdso: Split virtual clock pages into dedicated mapping")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250204-vdso-store-rng-v3-1-13a4669dfc8c@linutronix.de
Remove the usage of the vvar _vdso_rng_data from the kernel-space code,
as the x86 vvar machinery is about to be removed.
The definition of the structure is unnecessary, as the data lives in a
page pre-allocated by the linker anyways.
The vdso user-space access to the rng data will be switched soon.
DEFINE_VVAR_SINGLE() is now unused. It will be removed later togehter
with the rest of vvar.h.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241010-vdso-generic-base-v1-13-b64f0842d512@linutronix.de
_vdso_data is specific to x86 and __arch_get_k_vdso_data() is provided
so that all architectures can provide the requested pointer.
Do the same with _vdso_rng_data, provide __arch_get_k_vdso_rng_data()
and don't use x86 _vdso_rng_data directly.
Until now vdso/vsyscall.h was only included by time/vsyscall.c but now
it will also be included in char/random.c, leading to a duplicate
declaration of _vdso_data and _vdso_rng_data.
To fix this issue, move the declaration in a C file. vma.c looks like
the most appropriate candidate. We don't need to replace the definitions
in vsyscall.h by declarations as declarations are already in asm/vvar.h.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Having the prototype for __arch_chacha20_blocks_nostack in
arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/getrandom.h meant that the prototype and large
doc comment were cloned by every architecture, which has been causing
unnecessary churn. Instead move it into include/vdso/getrandom.h, where
it can be shared by all archs implementing it.
As a side bonus, this then lets us use that prototype in the
vdso_test_chacha self test, to ensure that it matches the source, and
indeed doing so turned up some inconsistencies, which are rectified
here.
Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:
"This adds getrandom() support to the vDSO.
First, it adds a new kind of mapping to mmap(2), MAP_DROPPABLE, which
lets the kernel zero out pages anytime under memory pressure, which
enables allocating memory that never gets swapped to disk but also
doesn't count as being mlocked.
Then, the vDSO implementation of getrandom() is introduced in a
generic manner and hooked into random.c.
Next, this is implemented on x86. (Also, though it's not ready for
this pull, somebody has begun an arm64 implementation already)
Finally, two vDSO selftests are added.
There are also two housekeeping cleanup commits"
* tag 'random-6.11-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random:
MAINTAINERS: add random.h headers to RNG subsection
random: note that RNDGETPOOL was removed in 2.6.9-rc2
selftests/vDSO: add tests for vgetrandom
x86: vdso: Wire up getrandom() vDSO implementation
random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation
mm: add MAP_DROPPABLE for designating always lazily freeable mappings
Hook up the generic vDSO implementation to the x86 vDSO data page. Since
the existing vDSO infrastructure is heavily based on the timekeeping
functionality, which works over arrays of bases, a new macro is
introduced for vvars that are not arrays.
The vDSO function requires a ChaCha20 implementation that does not write
to the stack, yet can still do an entire ChaCha20 permutation, so
provide this using SSE2, since this is userland code that must work on
all x86-64 processors.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Neves <sneves@dei.uc.pt> # for vgetrandom-chacha.S
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Kernel timekeeping is designed to keep the change in cycles (since the last
timer interrupt) below max_cycles, which prevents multiplication overflow
when converting cycles to nanoseconds. However, if timer interrupts stop,
the calculation will eventually overflow.
Add protection against that. Select GENERIC_VDSO_OVERFLOW_PROTECT so that
max_cycles is made available in the VDSO data page. Check against
max_cycles, falling back to a slower higher precision calculation. Take
advantage of the opportunity to move masking and negative motion check
into the slow path.
The result is a calculation that has similar performance as before. Newer
machines showed performance benefit, whereas older Skylake-based hardware
such as Intel Kaby Lake was seen <1% worse.
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325064023.2997-9-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Pull asm-generic cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
"A series from Baoquan He cleans up the asm-generic/io.h to remove the
ioremap_uc() definition from everything except x86, which still needs
it for pre-PAT systems. This series notably contains a patch from
Jiaxun Yang that converts MIPS to use asm-generic/io.h like every
other architecture does, enabling future cleanups.
Some of my own patches fix -Wmissing-prototype warnings in
architecture specific code across several architectures. This is now
needed as the warning is enabled by default. There are still some
remaining warnings in minor platforms, but the series should catch
most of the widely used ones make them more consistent with one
another.
David McKay fixes a bug in __generic_cmpxchg_local() when this is used
on 64-bit architectures. This could currently only affect parisc64 and
sparc64.
Additional cleanups address from Linus Walleij, Uwe Kleine-König,
Thomas Huth, and Kefeng Wang help reduce unnecessary inconsistencies
between architectures"
* tag 'asm-generic-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
asm-generic: Fix 32 bit __generic_cmpxchg_local
Hexagon: Make pfn accessors statics inlines
ARC: mm: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline
mips: remove extraneous asm-generic/iomap.h include
sparc: Use $(kecho) to announce kernel images being ready
arm64: vdso32: Define BUILD_VDSO32_64 to correct prototypes
csky: fix arch_jump_label_transform_static override
arch: add do_page_fault prototypes
arch: add missing prepare_ftrace_return() prototypes
arch: vdso: consolidate gettime prototypes
arch: include linux/cpu.h for trap_init() prototype
arch: fix asm-offsets.c building with -Wmissing-prototypes
arch: consolidate arch_irq_work_raise prototypes
hexagon: Remove CONFIG_HEXAGON_ARCH_VERSION from uapi header
asm/io: remove unnecessary xlate_dev_mem_ptr() and unxlate_dev_mem_ptr()
mips: io: remove duplicated codes
arch/*/io.h: remove ioremap_uc in some architectures
mips: add <asm-generic/io.h> including
The VDSO functions are defined as globals in the kernel sources but intended
to be called from userspace, so there is no need to declare them in a kernel
side header.
Without a prototype, this now causes warnings such as
arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c:14:5: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_clock_gettime' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c:28:5: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_gettimeofday' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c:36:5: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_clock_getres' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c:42:5: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_clock_gettime64' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c:254:1: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_clock_gettime' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c:282:1: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_clock_gettime_stick' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c:307:1: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_gettimeofday' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c:343:1: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_gettimeofday_stick' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
Most architectures have already added workarounds for these by adding
declarations somewhere, but since these are all compatible, we should
really just have one copy, with an #ifdef check for the 32-bit vs
64-bit variant and use that everywhere.
Unfortunately, the sparc an um versions are currently incompatible
since they never added support for __vdso_clock_gettime64() in 32-bit
userland. For the moment, I'm leaving this one out, as I can't
easily test it and it requires a larger rework.
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Currently hv_read_tsc_page_tsc() (ab)uses the (valid) time value of
U64_MAX as an error return. This breaks the clean wrap-around of the
clock.
Modify the function signature to return a boolean state and provide
another u64 pointer to store the actual time on success. This obviates
the need to steal one time value and restores the full counter width.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> # Hyper-V
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230519102715.775630881@infradead.org
Because of how the virtual clocks use U64_MAX as an exception value
instead of a valid time, the clocks can no longer be assumed to wrap
cleanly. This is then compounded by arch_vdso_cycles_ok() rejecting
everything with the MSB/Sign-bit set.
Therefore, the effective mask becomes S64_MAX, and the comment with
vdso_calc_delta() that states the mask is U64_MAX and isn't optimized
out is just plain silly.
Now, the code has a negative filter -- to deal with TSC wobbles:
if (cycles > last)
which is just plain wrong, because it should've been written as:
if ((s64)(cycles - last) > 0)
to take wrapping into account, but per all the above, we don't
actually wrap on u64 anymore.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> # Hyper-V
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230519102715.704767397@infradead.org
Fix those:
In file included from arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/vclock_gettime.c:4:
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/../vclock_gettime.c:70:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_clock_gettime64’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
70 | int __vdso_clock_gettime64(clockid_t clock, struct __kernel_timespec *ts)
|
In file included from arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/vgetcpu.c:3:
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/../vgetcpu.c:13:1: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_getcpu’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
13 | __vdso_getcpu(unsigned *cpu, unsigned *node, struct getcpu_cache *unused)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202302070742.iYcnoJwk-lkp@intel.com
MIPS already uses and S390 will need the vdso data pointer in
__arch_get_hw_counter().
This works nicely as long as the architecture does not support time
namespaces in the VDSO. With time namespaces enabled the regular
accessor to the vdso data pointer __arch_get_vdso_data() will return the
namespace specific VDSO data page for tasks which are part of a
non-root time namespace. This would cause the architectures which need
the vdso data pointer in __arch_get_hw_counter() to access the wrong
vdso data page.
Add a vdso_data pointer argument to __arch_get_hw_counter() and hand it in
from the call sites in the core code. For architectures which do not need
the data pointer in their counter accessor function the compiler will just
optimize it out.
Fix up all existing architecture implementations and make MIPS utilize the
pointer instead of invoking the accessor function.
No functional change and no change in the resulting object code (except
MIPS).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/draft-87wo2ekuzn.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
The conversion of x86 VDSO to the generic clock mode storage broke the
paravirt and hyperv clocksource logic. These clock sources have their own
internal sequence counter to validate the clocksource at the point of
reading it. This is necessary because the hypervisor can invalidate the
clocksource asynchronously so a check during the VDSO data update is not
sufficient. If the internal check during read invalidates the clocksource
the read return U64_MAX. The original code checked this efficiently by
testing whether the result (casted to signed) is negative, i.e. bit 63 is
set. This was done that way because an extra indicator for the validity had
more overhead.
The conversion broke this check because the check was replaced by a check
for a valid VDSO clock mode.
The wreckage manifests itself when the paravirt clock is installed as a
valid VDSO clock and during runtime invalidated by the hypervisor,
e.g. after a host suspend/resume cycle. After the invalidation the read
function returns U64_MAX which is used as cycles and makes the clock jump
by ~2200 seconds, and become stale until the 2200 seconds have elapsed
where it starts to jump again. The period of this effect depends on the
shift/mult pair of the clocksource and the jumps and staleness are an
artifact of undefined but reproducible behaviour of math overflow.
Implement an x86 version of the new vdso_cycles_ok() inline which adds this
check back and a variant of vdso_clocksource_ok() which lets the compiler
optimize it out to avoid the extra conditional. That's suboptimal when the
system does not have a VDSO capable clocksource, but that's not the case
which is optimized for.
Fixes: 5d51bee725 ("clocksource: Add common vdso clock mode storage")
Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200606221532.080560273@linutronix.de
The vDSO library should only include the necessary headers required for
a userspace library (UAPI and a minimal set of kernel headers). To make
this possible it is necessary to isolate from the kernel headers the
common parts that are strictly necessary to build the library.
Introduce asm/vdso/clocksource.h to contain all the arm64 specific
functions that are suitable for vDSO inclusion.
This header will be required by a future patch that will generalize
vdso/clocksource.h.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200320145351.32292-5-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com
All architectures which use the generic VDSO code have their own storage
for the VDSO clock mode. That's pointless and just requires duplicate code.
X86 abuses the function which retrieves the architecture specific clock
mode storage to mark the clocksource as used in the VDSO. That's silly
because this is invoked on every tick when the VDSO data is updated.
Move this functionality to the clocksource::enable() callback so it gets
invoked once when the clocksource is installed. This allows to make the
clock mode storage generic.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> (Hyper-V parts)
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> (VDSO parts)
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> (Xen parts)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207124402.934519777@linutronix.de
To support time namespaces in the VDSO with a minimal impact on regular non
time namespace affected tasks, the namespace handling needs to be hidden in
a slow path.
The most obvious place is vdso_seq_begin(). If a task belongs to a time
namespace then the VVAR page which contains the system wide VDSO data is
replaced with a namespace specific page which has the same layout as the
VVAR page. That page has vdso_data->seq set to 1 to enforce the slow path
and vdso_data->clock_mode set to VCLOCK_TIMENS to enforce the time
namespace handling path.
The extra check in the case that vdso_data->seq is odd, e.g. a concurrent
update of the VDSO data is in progress, is not really affecting regular
tasks which are not part of a time namespace as the task is spin waiting
for the update to finish and vdso_data->seq to become even again.
If a time namespace task hits that code path, it invokes the corresponding
time getter function which retrieves the real VVAR page, reads host time
and then adds the offset for the requested clock which is stored in the
special VVAR page.
Allocate the time namespace page among VVAR pages and place vdso_data on
it. Provide __arch_get_timens_vdso_data() helper for VDSO code to get the
code-relative position of VVARs on that special page.
Co-developed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-23-dima@arista.com
Pull core timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Timers and timekeeping updates:
- A large overhaul of the posix CPU timer code which is a preparation
for moving the CPU timer expiry out into task work so it can be
properly accounted on the task/process.
An update to the bogus permission checks will come later during the
merge window as feedback was not complete before heading of for
travel.
- Switch the timerqueue code to use cached rbtrees and get rid of the
homebrewn caching of the leftmost node.
- Consolidate hrtimer_init() + hrtimer_init_sleeper() calls into a
single function
- Implement the separation of hrtimers to be forced to expire in hard
interrupt context even when PREEMPT_RT is enabled and mark the
affected timers accordingly.
- Implement a mechanism for hrtimers and the timer wheel to protect
RT against priority inversion and live lock issues when a (hr)timer
which should be canceled is currently executing the callback.
Instead of infinitely spinning, the task which tries to cancel the
timer blocks on a per cpu base expiry lock which is held and
released by the (hr)timer expiry code.
- Enable the Hyper-V TSC page based sched_clock for Hyper-V guests
resulting in faster access to timekeeping functions.
- Updates to various clocksource/clockevent drivers and their device
tree bindings.
- The usual small improvements all over the place"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
posix-cpu-timers: Fix permission check regression
posix-cpu-timers: Always clear head pointer on dequeue
hrtimer: Add a missing bracket and hide `migration_base' on !SMP
posix-cpu-timers: Make expiry_active check actually work correctly
posix-timers: Unbreak CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS=n build
tick: Mark sched_timer to expire in hard interrupt context
hrtimer: Add kernel doc annotation for HRTIMER_MODE_HARD
x86/hyperv: Hide pv_ops access for CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n
posix-cpu-timers: Utilize timerqueue for storage
posix-cpu-timers: Move state tracking to struct posix_cputimers
posix-cpu-timers: Deduplicate rlimit handling
posix-cpu-timers: Remove pointless comparisons
posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of 64bit divisions
posix-cpu-timers: Consolidate timer expiry further
posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of zero checks
rlimit: Rewrite non-sensical RLIMIT_CPU comment
posix-cpu-timers: Respect INFINITY for hard RTTIME limit
posix-cpu-timers: Switch thread group sampling to array
posix-cpu-timers: Restructure expiry array
posix-cpu-timers: Remove cputime_expires
...
There is no particular reason to not enable TSC page clocksource on
32-bit. mul_u64_u64_shr() is available and despite the increased
computational complexity (compared to 64bit) TSC page is still a huge win
compared to MSR-based clocksource.
In-kernel reads:
MSR based clocksource: 3361 cycles
TSC page clocksource: 49 cycles
Reads from userspace (utilizing vDSO in case of TSC page):
MSR based clocksource: 5664 cycles
TSC page clocksource: 131 cycles
Enabling TSC page on 32bits allows to get rid of CONFIG_HYPERV_TSCPAGE as
it is now not any different from CONFIG_HYPERV_TIMER.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190822083630.17059-1-vkuznets@redhat.com
The generic VDSO implementation uses the Y2038 safe clock_gettime64() and
clock_getres_time64() syscalls as fallback for 32bit VDSO. This breaks
seccomp setups because these syscalls might be not (yet) allowed.
Implement the 32bit variants which use the legacy syscalls and select the
variant in the core library.
The 64bit time variants are not removed because they are required for the
time64 based vdso accessors.
Fixes: 7ac8707479 ("x86/vdso: Switch to generic vDSO implementation")
Reported-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190728131648.879156507@linutronix.de
The x86 vdso implementation on which the generic vdso library is based on
has subtle (unfortunately undocumented) twists:
1) The code assumes that the clocksource mask is U64_MAX which means that
no bits are masked. Which is true for any valid x86 VDSO clocksource.
Stupidly it still did the mask operation for no reason and at the wrong
place right after reading the clocksource.
2) It contains a sanity check to catch the case where slightly
unsynchronized TSC values can be observed which would cause the delta
calculation to make a huge jump. It therefore checks whether the
current TSC value is larger than the value on which the current
conversion is based on. If it's not larger the base value is used to
prevent time jumps.
#1 Is not only stupid for the X86 case because it does the masking for no
reason it is also completely wrong for clocksources with a smaller mask
which can legitimately wrap around during a conversion period. The core
timekeeping code does it correct by applying the mask after the delta
calculation:
(now - base) & mask
#2 is equally broken for clocksources which have smaller masks and can wrap
around during a conversion period because there the now > base check is
just wrong and causes stale time stamps and time going backwards issues.
Unbreak it by:
1) Removing the mask operation from the clocksource read which makes the
fallback detection work for all clocksources
2) Replacing the conditional delta calculation with a overrideable inline
function.
#2 could reuse clocksource_delta() from the timekeeping code but that
results in a significant performance hit for the x86 VSDO. The timekeeping
core code must have the non optimized version as it has to operate
correctly with clocksources which have smaller masks as well to handle the
case where TSC is discarded as timekeeper clocksource and replaced by HPET
or pmtimer. For the VDSO there is no replacement clocksource. If TSC is
unusable the syscall is enforced which does the right thing.
To accommodate to the needs of various architectures provide an
override-able inline function which defaults to the regular delta
calculation with masking:
(now - base) & mask
Override it for x86 with the non-masking and checking version.
This unbreaks the ARM64 syscall fallback operation, allows to use
clocksources with arbitrary width and preserves the performance
optimization for x86.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
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Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: paul.burton@mips.com
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: salyzyn@android.com
Cc: pcc@google.com
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: 0x7f454c46@gmail.com
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Cc: andre.przywara@arm.com
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1906261159230.32342@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
