RE: [PATCH v2 08/10] clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Handle sched_clock differences inline

From: Michael Kelley
Date: Tue Mar 02 2021 - 02:49:46 EST


From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 6:25 AM
>
> On 01/03/2021 02:15, Michael Kelley wrote:
> > While the Hyper-V Reference TSC code is architecture neutral, the
> > pv_ops.time.sched_clock() function is implemented for x86/x64, but not
> > for ARM64. Current code calls a utility function under arch/x86 (and
> > coming, under arch/arm64) to handle the difference.
> >
> > Change this approach to handle the difference inline based on whether
> > GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK is present. The new approach removes code under
> > arch/* since the difference is tied more to the specifics of the Linux
> > implementation than to the architecture.
> >
> > No functional change.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > +/*
> > + * Reference to pv_ops must be inline so objtool
> > + * detection of noinstr violations can work correctly.
> > + */
> > +static __always_inline void hv_setup_sched_clock(void *sched_clock)
> > +{
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
> > + /*
> > + * We're on an architecture with generic sched clock (not x86/x64).
> > + * The Hyper-V sched clock read function returns nanoseconds, not
> > + * the normal 100ns units of the Hyper-V synthetic clock.
> > + */
> > + sched_clock_register(sched_clock, 64, NSEC_PER_SEC);
> > +#else
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
> > + /* We're on x86/x64 *and* using PV ops */
> > + pv_ops.time.sched_clock = sched_clock;
> > +#endif
> > +#endif
> > +}
> Please refer to:
>
> Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
>
> Section 21)
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Prefer to compile out entire functions, rather than portions of
> functions or portions of expressions.
>
> [ ... ]
>

OK. I'll rework the #ifdef in v3 of the patch set. Is the following
the preferred approach?

#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
static __always_inline void hv_setup_sched_clock(void *sched_clock)
{
sched_clock_register(sched_clock, 64 NSEC_PER_SEC);
}
#else
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
static __always_inline void hv_setup_sched_clock(void *sched_clock)
{
pv_ops.time.sched_clock = sched_clock:
}
#else
static __always_inline void hv_setup_sched_clock(void *sched_clock) {}
#endif
#endif

Michael