[RFC PATCH v3 04/12] lib: vdso: inline do_hres() and do_coarse()

[Christophe Leroy]

do_hres() is called from several places, so GCC doesn't inline
it at first.

do_hres() takes a struct __kernel_timespec * parameter for
passing the result. In the 32 bits case, this parameter corresponds
to a local var in the caller. In order to provide a pointer
to this structure, the caller has to put it in its stack and
do_hres() has to write the result in the stack. This is suboptimal,
especially on RISC processor like powerpc.

By making GCC inline the function, the struct __kernel_timespec
remains a local var using registers, avoiding the need to write and
read stack.

The improvement is significant on powerpc:
Before:
gettimeofday:    vdso: 1379 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:    vdso: 868 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 1511 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw:    vdso: 1576 nsec/call

After:
gettimeofday:    vdso: 1078 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:    vdso: 807 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 1256 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw:    vdso: 1316 nsec/call

At the same time, change the return type of do_coarse() to int, this
increase readability of the if/elseif/elseif/else  section
in __cvdso_clock_gettime_common()

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
---
 lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
index 42bd8ab955fa..d75e44ba716f 100644
--- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
+++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ u64 vdso_calc_delta(u64 cycles, u64 last, u64 mask, u32 mult)
 }
 #endif
 
-static int do_hres(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk,
-		   struct __kernel_timespec *ts)
+static __always_inline int do_hres(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk,
+				   struct __kernel_timespec *ts)
 {
 	const struct vdso_timestamp *vdso_ts = &vd->basetime[clk];
 	u64 cycles, last, sec, ns;
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ static int do_hres(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void do_coarse(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk,
-		      struct __kernel_timespec *ts)
+static __always_inline int do_coarse(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk,
+				     struct __kernel_timespec *ts)
 {
 	const struct vdso_timestamp *vdso_ts = &vd->basetime[clk];
 	u32 seq;
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ static void do_coarse(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk,
 		ts->tv_sec = vdso_ts->sec;
 		ts->tv_nsec = vdso_ts->nsec;
 	} while (unlikely(vdso_read_retry(vd, seq)));
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static __maybe_unused int
@@ -96,15 +98,16 @@ __cvdso_clock_gettime_common(clockid_t clock, struct __kernel_timespec *ts)
 	 * clocks are handled in the VDSO directly.
 	 */
 	msk = 1U << clock;
-	if (likely(msk & VDSO_HRES)) {
-		return do_hres(&vd[CS_HRES_COARSE], clock, ts);
-	} else if (msk & VDSO_COARSE) {
-		do_coarse(&vd[CS_HRES_COARSE], clock, ts);
-		return 0;
-	} else if (msk & VDSO_RAW) {
-		return do_hres(&vd[CS_RAW], clock, ts);
-	}
-	return -1;
+	if (likely(msk & VDSO_HRES))
+		vd += CS_HRES_COARSE;
+	else if (msk & VDSO_COARSE)
+		return do_coarse(&vd[CS_HRES_COARSE], clock, ts);
+	else if (msk & VDSO_RAW)
+		vd += CS_RAW;
+	else
+		return -1;
+
+	return do_hres(vd, clock, ts);
 }
 
 static __maybe_unused int
-- 
2.13.3