x86/vdso: Rearrange do_hres() to improve code generation
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Fri, 5 Oct 2018 18:02:43 +0000 (11:02 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 5 Oct 2018 19:03:23 +0000 (21:03 +0200)
vgetcyc() is full of barriers, so fetching values out of the vvar
page before vgetcyc() for use after vgetcyc() results in poor code
generation.  Put vgetcyc() first to avoid this problem.

Also, pull the tv_sec division into the loop and put all the ts
writes together.  The old code wrote ts->tv_sec on each iteration
before the syscall fallback check and then added in the offset
afterwards, which forced the compiler to pointlessly copy base->sec
to ts->tv_sec on each iteration.  The new version seems to generate
sensible code.

Saves several cycles.  With this patch applied, the result is faster
than before the clock_gettime() rewrite.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3c05644d010b72216aa286a6d20b5078d5fae5cd.1538762487.git.luto@kernel.org
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c

index 18c8a78d1ec9581a6cfcf16d1627d31a65f0724f..007b3fe9d727cbc8c55f78c1734b3d28551a7dda 100644 (file)
@@ -142,23 +142,27 @@ notrace static inline u64 vgetcyc(int mode)
 notrace static int do_hres(clockid_t clk, struct timespec *ts)
 {
        struct vgtod_ts *base = &gtod->basetime[clk];
-       u64 cycles, last, ns;
+       u64 cycles, last, sec, ns;
        unsigned int seq;
 
        do {
                seq = gtod_read_begin(gtod);
-               ts->tv_sec = base->sec;
+               cycles = vgetcyc(gtod->vclock_mode);
                ns = base->nsec;
                last = gtod->cycle_last;
-               cycles = vgetcyc(gtod->vclock_mode);
                if (unlikely((s64)cycles < 0))
                        return vdso_fallback_gettime(clk, ts);
                if (cycles > last)
                        ns += (cycles - last) * gtod->mult;
                ns >>= gtod->shift;
+               sec = base->sec;
        } while (unlikely(gtod_read_retry(gtod, seq)));
 
-       ts->tv_sec += __iter_div_u64_rem(ns, NSEC_PER_SEC, &ns);
+       /*
+        * Do this outside the loop: a race inside the loop could result
+        * in __iter_div_u64_rem() being extremely slow.
+        */
+       ts->tv_sec = sec + __iter_div_u64_rem(ns, NSEC_PER_SEC, &ns);
        ts->tv_nsec = ns;
 
        return 0;