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x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guards Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since: a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless. b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-23 13:26:29 +08:00
#ifndef _ASM_X86_VGTOD_H
#define _ASM_X86_VGTOD_H
x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu 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: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21 23:10:01 +08:00
#include <asm/vsyscall.h>
#include <linux/clocksource.h>
struct vsyscall_gtod_data {
seqlock_t lock;
/* open coded 'struct timespec' */
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);
cycle_t cycle_last;
cycle_t mask;
u32 mult;
u32 shift;
} clock;
struct timespec wall_to_monotonic;
time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE 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: John 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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-20 10:13:34 +08:00
struct timespec wall_time_coarse;
x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu 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: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21 23:10:01 +08:00
};
extern struct vsyscall_gtod_data __vsyscall_gtod_data
__section_vsyscall_gtod_data;
extern struct vsyscall_gtod_data vsyscall_gtod_data;
x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guards Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since: a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless. b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-23 13:26:29 +08:00
#endif /* _ASM_X86_VGTOD_H */