Re: [PATCH 4/8] vclock_gettime.c __vdso_clock_gettime cleanup

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Sun Feb 02 2014 - 11:39:04 EST


On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:27 AM, <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch is a small code cleanup for the __vdso_clock_gettime() function.
>
> It removes the unneeded return values from do_monotonic_coarse() and
> do_realtime_coarse() and add a fallback label for doing the kernel
> gettimeofday() system call.
>

This is possibly worth benchmarking, but it looks harmless, and
possibly even beneficial, to me. (If the optimizer is in a good mood,
it might do a nicer job with do_monotonic now.)

--Andy

> Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 27 ++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
> index bbc8065..fd074dd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
> @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ notrace static int do_monotonic(struct timespec *ts)
> return mode;
> }
>
> -notrace static int do_realtime_coarse(struct timespec *ts)
> +notrace static void do_realtime_coarse(struct timespec *ts)
> {
> unsigned long seq;
> do {
> @@ -217,10 +217,9 @@ notrace static int do_realtime_coarse(struct timespec *ts)
> ts->tv_sec = gtod->wall_time_coarse.tv_sec;
> ts->tv_nsec = gtod->wall_time_coarse.tv_nsec;
> } while (unlikely(read_seqcount_retry(&gtod->seq, seq)));
> - return 0;
> }
>
> -notrace static int do_monotonic_coarse(struct timespec *ts)
> +notrace static void do_monotonic_coarse(struct timespec *ts)
> {
> unsigned long seq;
> do {
> @@ -228,30 +227,32 @@ notrace static int do_monotonic_coarse(struct timespec *ts)
> ts->tv_sec = gtod->monotonic_time_coarse.tv_sec;
> ts->tv_nsec = gtod->monotonic_time_coarse.tv_nsec;
> } while (unlikely(read_seqcount_retry(&gtod->seq, seq)));
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> notrace int __vdso_clock_gettime(clockid_t clock, struct timespec *ts)
> {
> - int ret = VCLOCK_NONE;
> -
> switch (clock) {
> case CLOCK_REALTIME:
> - ret = do_realtime(ts);
> + if (do_realtime(ts) == VCLOCK_NONE)
> + goto fallback;
> break;
> case CLOCK_MONOTONIC:
> - ret = do_monotonic(ts);
> + if (do_monotonic(ts) == VCLOCK_NONE)
> + goto fallback;
> break;
> case CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE:
> - return do_realtime_coarse(ts);
> + do_realtime_coarse(ts);
> + break;
> case CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE:
> - return do_monotonic_coarse(ts);
> + do_monotonic_coarse(ts);
> + break;
> + default:
> + goto fallback;
> }
>
> - if (ret == VCLOCK_NONE)
> - return vdso_fallback_gettime(clock, ts);
> return 0;
> +fallback:
> + return vdso_fallback_gettime(clock, ts);
> }
> int clock_gettime(clockid_t, struct timespec *)
> __attribute__((weak, alias("__vdso_clock_gettime")));
> --
> 1.8.5.3
>



--
Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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