[PATCH] x86-64: Add time to vDSO

[Andy Lutomirski]

The only fast implementation of time(2) we expose is through the
vsyscall page and we want to get userspace to stop using the
vsyscall page.  So make it available through the vDSO as well.

This is essentially a cut-n-paste job.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx>
---

[Some cc's dropped from original thread because they probably only cared
 about the rdtsc stuff.]

This applies on top of my rdtsc patchkit.  It might apply without it
but it certainly won't work because it needs the new VVAR macro.

It survives light testing.  The return value of the new time function agrees
with glibc's time(2) and it takes about 3ns to call on Sandy Bridge.
(glibc's function takes twice as long I haven't tried to figure out why.)

 arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/vdso/vdso.lds.S       |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
index 28b2c00..e6e9f90 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  * Copyright 2006 Andi Kleen, SUSE Labs.
  * Subject to the GNU Public License, v.2
  *
- * Fast user context implementation of clock_gettime and gettimeofday.
+ * Fast user context implementation of clock_gettime, gettimeofday, and time.
  *
  * The code should have no internal unresolved relocations.
  * Check with readelf after changing.
@@ -160,3 +160,36 @@ notrace int __vdso_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz)
 }
 int gettimeofday(struct timeval *, struct timezone *)
 	__attribute__((weak, alias("__vdso_gettimeofday")));
+
+/* This will break when the xtime seconds get inaccurate, but that is
+ * unlikely */
+
+static __always_inline long time_syscall(long *t)
+{
+	long secs;
+	asm volatile("syscall"
+		     : "=a" (secs)
+		     : "0" (__NR_time), "D" (t) : "cc", "r11", "cx", "memory");
+	return secs;
+}
+
+notrace time_t __vdso_time(time_t *t)
+{
+	unsigned seq;
+	time_t result;
+	if (unlikely(!VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).sysctl_enabled))
+		return time_syscall(t);
+
+	do {
+		seq = read_seqbegin(&VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).lock);
+
+		result = VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).wall_time_sec;
+
+	} while (read_seqretry(&VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).lock, seq));
+
+	if (t)
+		*t = result;
+	return result;
+}
+int time(time_t *t)
+	__attribute__((weak, alias("__vdso_time")));
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.lds.S b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.lds.S
index 81f2500..b96b267 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.lds.S
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ VERSION {
 		__vdso_gettimeofday;
 		getcpu;
 		__vdso_getcpu;
+		time;
+		__vdso_time;
 	local: *;
 	};
 }
-- 
1.7.5.1

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