This is the vsyscall equivalent of monotonic_clock(), using the per-cpu vxtime.
It returns the number of nanoseconds since boot.
It's intended to be used by processes that need a cheap and nanosecond
resolution time counter.
Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c
index 9025699..f124cc6 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ #include <asm/unistd.h>
#define NS_SCALE 10
#define NSEC_PER_TICK (NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ)
+extern unsigned long long monotonic_base;
extern unsigned long hpet_tick;
extern unsigned long vxtime_hz;
@@ -108,11 +109,13 @@ void vxtime_update_pcpu(void)
do {
seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock);
+ vxtime.pcpu[cpu].monotonic_base = monotonic_base;
vxtime.pcpu[cpu].tv_sec = xtime.tv_sec;
vxtime.pcpu[cpu].tv_usec = xtime.tv_nsec / 1000;
offset = hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - vxtime.last;
} while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
+ vxtime.pcpu[cpu].monotonic_base += offset * NSEC_PER_TICK / hpet_tick;
vxtime.pcpu[cpu].tv_usec += (offset * vxtime.quot) >> 32;
vxtime.pcpu[cpu].last_tsc = get_cycles_sync();
@@ -256,6 +259,24 @@ vgetcpu(unsigned *cpu, unsigned *node, s
return 0;
}
+unsigned long __vsyscall(3) vmonotonic_clock(void)
+{
+ unsigned long nsec, seq, t;
+ int cpu;
+
+ do {
+ seq = read_seqbegin(&__vxtime.vx_seq);
+ cpu = apicid();
+ nsec = __vxtime.pcpu[cpu].monotonic_base;
+
+ rdtscll(t);
+ nsec += ((t - __vxtime.pcpu[cpu].last_tsc)
+ * __vxtime.pcpu[cpu].tsc_nsquot) >> NS_SCALE;
+ } while (read_seqretry(&__vxtime.vx_seq, seq) || cpu != apicid());
+
+ return (nsec);
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
#define SYSCALL 0x050f
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h b/include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h
index 707353b..5a10fd0 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #define VGETCPU_RDTSCP 1
#define VGETCPU_LSL 2
struct vxtime_pcpu {
+ unsigned long monotonic_base;
time_t tv_sec;
long tv_usec;
unsigned long tsc_nsquot;
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