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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>2011-06-05 13:50:20 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-06-05 21:30:33 +0200
commit0d7b8547fb67d5c2a7d954c56b3715b0e708be4a (patch)
treef2d8b6c9c06b751f1b2c1b0665e761ce8e28a358
parent9fd67b4ed0714ab718f1f9bd14c344af336a6df7 (diff)
x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl
It's unnecessary overhead in code that's supposed to be highly optimized. Removing it allows us to remove one of the two syscall instructions in the vsyscall page. The only sensible use for it is for UML users, and it doesn't fully address inconsistent vsyscall results on UML. The real fix for UML is to stop using vsyscalls entirely. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/973ae803fe76f712da4b2740e66dccf452d3b1e4.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c34
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c55
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 68 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
index 646b4c1ca69..aa5add855a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ struct vsyscall_gtod_data {
time_t wall_time_sec;
u32 wall_time_nsec;
- int sysctl_enabled;
struct timezone sys_tz;
struct { /* extract of a clocksource struct */
cycle_t (*vread)(void);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index 3cf1cef75a6..9b2f3f51bc9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ DEFINE_VVAR(int, vgetcpu_mode);
DEFINE_VVAR(struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data) =
{
.lock = __SEQLOCK_UNLOCKED(__vsyscall_gtod_data.lock),
- .sysctl_enabled = 1,
};
void update_vsyscall_tz(void)
@@ -103,15 +102,6 @@ static __always_inline int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz)
return ret;
}
-static __always_inline long time_syscall(long *t)
-{
- long secs;
- asm volatile("syscall"
- : "=a" (secs)
- : "0" (__NR_time),"D" (t) : __syscall_clobber);
- return secs;
-}
-
static __always_inline void do_vgettimeofday(struct timeval * tv)
{
cycle_t now, base, mask, cycle_delta;
@@ -122,8 +112,7 @@ static __always_inline void do_vgettimeofday(struct timeval * tv)
seq = read_seqbegin(&VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).lock);
vread = VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).clock.vread;
- if (unlikely(!VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).sysctl_enabled ||
- !vread)) {
+ if (unlikely(!vread)) {
gettimeofday(tv,NULL);
return;
}
@@ -165,8 +154,6 @@ time_t __vsyscall(1) vtime(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);
@@ -227,22 +214,6 @@ static long __vsyscall(3) venosys_1(void)
return -ENOSYS;
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
-static ctl_table kernel_table2[] = {
- { .procname = "vsyscall64",
- .data = &vsyscall_gtod_data.sysctl_enabled, .maxlen = sizeof(int),
- .mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec },
- {}
-};
-
-static ctl_table kernel_root_table2[] = {
- { .procname = "kernel", .mode = 0555,
- .child = kernel_table2 },
- {}
-};
-#endif
-
/* Assume __initcall executes before all user space. Hopefully kmod
doesn't violate that. We'll find out if it does. */
static void __cpuinit vsyscall_set_cpu(int cpu)
@@ -301,9 +272,6 @@ static int __init vsyscall_init(void)
BUG_ON((unsigned long) &vtime != VSYSCALL_ADDR(__NR_vtime));
BUG_ON((VSYSCALL_ADDR(0) != __fix_to_virt(VSYSCALL_FIRST_PAGE)));
BUG_ON((unsigned long) &vgetcpu != VSYSCALL_ADDR(__NR_vgetcpu));
-#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
- register_sysctl_table(kernel_root_table2);
-#endif
on_each_cpu(cpu_vsyscall_init, NULL, 1);
/* notifier priority > KVM */
hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 30);
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
index a724905fdae..cf54813ac52 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -116,21 +116,21 @@ notrace static noinline int do_monotonic_coarse(struct timespec *ts)
notrace int __vdso_clock_gettime(clockid_t clock, struct timespec *ts)
{
- if (likely(gtod->sysctl_enabled))
- switch (clock) {
- case CLOCK_REALTIME:
- if (likely(gtod->clock.vread))
- return do_realtime(ts);
- break;
- case CLOCK_MONOTONIC:
- if (likely(gtod->clock.vread))
- return do_monotonic(ts);
- break;
- case CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE:
- return do_realtime_coarse(ts);
- case CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE:
- return do_monotonic_coarse(ts);
- }
+ switch (clock) {
+ case CLOCK_REALTIME:
+ if (likely(gtod->clock.vread))
+ return do_realtime(ts);
+ break;
+ case CLOCK_MONOTONIC:
+ if (likely(gtod->clock.vread))
+ return do_monotonic(ts);
+ break;
+ case CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE:
+ return do_realtime_coarse(ts);
+ case CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE:
+ return do_monotonic_coarse(ts);
+ }
+
return vdso_fallback_gettime(clock, ts);
}
int clock_gettime(clockid_t, struct timespec *)
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ int clock_gettime(clockid_t, struct timespec *)
notrace int __vdso_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz)
{
long ret;
- if (likely(gtod->sysctl_enabled && gtod->clock.vread)) {
+ if (likely(gtod->clock.vread)) {
if (likely(tv != NULL)) {
BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct timeval, tv_usec) !=
offsetof(struct timespec, tv_nsec) ||
@@ -161,27 +161,14 @@ 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;
-}
-
+/*
+ * This will break when the xtime seconds get inaccurate, but that is
+ * unlikely
+ */
notrace time_t __vdso_time(time_t *t)
{
- time_t result;
-
- if (unlikely(!VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).sysctl_enabled))
- return time_syscall(t);
-
/* This is atomic on x86_64 so we don't need any locks. */
- result = ACCESS_ONCE(VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).wall_time_sec);
+ time_t result = ACCESS_ONCE(VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).wall_time_sec);
if (t)
*t = result;