1. 25 9月, 2012 1 次提交
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      time: Convert x86_64 to using new update_vsyscall · 650ea024
      John Stultz 提交于
      Switch x86_64 to using sub-ns precise vsyscall
      
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
      Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      650ea024
  2. 24 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  3. 16 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  4. 15 7月, 2011 1 次提交
  5. 06 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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      x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl · 0d7b8547
      Andy Lutomirski 提交于
      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: NAndy 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.eduSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0d7b8547
  6. 24 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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      x86-64: Clean up vdso/kernel shared variables · 8c49d9a7
      Andy Lutomirski 提交于
      Variables that are shared between the vdso and the kernel are
      currently a bit of a mess.  They are each defined with their own
      magic, they are accessed differently in the kernel, the vsyscall page,
      and the vdso, and one of them (vsyscall_clock) doesn't even really
      exist.
      
      This changes them all to use a common mechanism.  All of them are
      delcared in vvar.h with a fixed address (validated by the linker
      script).  In the kernel (as before), they look like ordinary
      read-write variables.  In the vsyscall page and the vdso, they are
      accessed through a new macro VVAR, which gives read-only access.
      
      The vdso is now loaded verbatim into memory without any fixups.  As a
      side bonus, access from the vdso is faster because a level of
      indirection is removed.
      
      While we're at it, pack jiffies and vgetcpu_mode into the same
      cacheline.
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C7357882fbb51fa30491636a7b6528747301b7ee9.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3ESigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      8c49d9a7
  7. 22 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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      time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE · da15cfda
      john stultz 提交于
      After talking with some application writers who want very fast, but not
      fine-grained timestamps, I decided to try to implement new clock_ids
      to clock_gettime(): CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE
      which returns the time at the last tick. This is very fast as we don't
      have to access any hardware (which can be very painful if you're using
      something like the acpi_pm clocksource), and we can even use the vdso
      clock_gettime() method to avoid the syscall. The only trade off is you
      only get low-res tick grained time resolution.
      
      This isn't a new idea, I know Ingo has a patch in the -rt tree that made
      the vsyscall gettimeofday() return coarse grained time when the
      vsyscall64 sysctrl was set to 2. However this affects all applications
      on a system.
      
      With this method, applications can choose the proper speed/granularity
      trade-off for themselves.
      Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: nikolag@ca.ibm.com
      Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: arjan@infradead.org
      Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org
      LKML-Reference: <1250734414.6897.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      da15cfda
  8. 23 10月, 2008 2 次提交
  9. 23 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      x86: consolidate header guards · 77ef50a5
      Vegard Nossum 提交于
      This patch is the result of an automatic script that consolidates the
      format of all the headers in include/asm-x86/.
      
      The format:
      
      1. No leading underscore. Names with leading underscores are reserved.
      2. Pathname components are separated by two underscores. So we can
         distinguish between mm_types.h and mm/types.h.
      3. Everything except letters and numbers are turned into single
         underscores.
      Signed-off-by: NVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
      77ef50a5
  10. 11 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  11. 22 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu · 2aae950b
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      This implements new vDSO for x86-64.  The concept is similar
      to the existing vDSOs on i386 and PPC.  x86-64 has had static
      vsyscalls before,  but these are not flexible enough anymore.
      
      A vDSO is a ELF shared library supplied by the kernel that is mapped into
      user address space.  The vDSO mapping is randomized for each process
      for security reasons.
      
      Doing this was needed for clock_gettime, because clock_gettime
      always needs a syscall fallback and having one at a fixed
      address would have made buffer overflow exploits too easy to write.
      
      The vdso can be disabled with vdso=0
      
      It currently includes a new gettimeofday implemention and optimized
      clock_gettime(). The gettimeofday implementation is slightly faster
      than the one in the old vsyscall.  clock_gettime is significantly faster
      than the syscall for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME.
      
      The new calls are generally faster than the old vsyscall.
      
      Advantages over the old x86-64 vsyscalls:
      - Extensible
      - Randomized
      - Cleaner
      - Easier to virtualize (the old static address range previously causes
      overhead e.g. for Xen because it has to create special page tables for it)
      
      Weak points:
      - glibc support still to be written
      
      The VM interface is partly based on Ingo Molnar's i386 version.
      
      Includes compile fix from Joachim Deguara
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2aae950b