powerpc: Improve resolution of VDSO clock_gettime

Currently the clock_gettime implementation in the VDSO produces a
result with microsecond resolution for the cases that are handled
without a system call, i.e. CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC.  The
nanoseconds field of the result is obtained by computing a
microseconds value and multiplying by 1000.

This changes the code in the VDSO to do the computation for
clock_gettime with nanosecond resolution.  That means that the
resolution of the result will ultimately depend on the timebase
frequency.

Because the timestamp in the VDSO datapage (stamp_xsec, the real time
corresponding to the timebase count in tb_orig_stamp) is in units of
2^-20 seconds, it doesn't have sufficient resolution for computing a
result with nanosecond resolution.  Therefore this adds a copy of
xtime to the VDSO datapage and updates it in update_gtod() along with
the other time-related fields.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index e2ee66b5831..8389c5be149 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -456,6 +456,7 @@ static inline void update_gtod(u64 new_tb_stamp, u64 new_stamp_xsec,
 	vdso_data->tb_to_xs = new_tb_to_xs;
 	vdso_data->wtom_clock_sec = wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec;
 	vdso_data->wtom_clock_nsec = wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec;
+	vdso_data->stamp_xtime = xtime;
 	smp_wmb();
 	++(vdso_data->tb_update_count);
 }