FROMLIST: lib: vdso: add support for time
authorMark Salyzyn <salyzyn@google.com>
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:58:18 +0000 (08:58 -0700)
committerBruno Martins <bgcngm@gmail.com>
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:03:36 +0000 (17:03 +0100)
commitda96fdac5f8ca3e4a06797f9ebfea8f056ff9d17
tree202d14094c204911783751137094ae140a9e5882
parentef15aee648b3fcf749a57c01a3616ab18f2e4c27
FROMLIST: lib: vdso: add support for time

(cherry pick from url https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10053549/)

Add time() vdso support to match up with existing support in the x86's
vdso.  Currently benefitting arm and arm64 which uses the common
vgettimeofday.c implementation.  On arm provides about a ~14 fold
improvement in speed over the straight syscall, and about a ~5 fold
improvement in speed over an alternate library implementation that
relies on the vdso call to gettimeofday to fulfill the request.

We can provide __vdso_time even if we can not provide a speed
enhanced __vdso_gettimeofday.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Bug: 63737556
Bug: 20045882
Change-Id: I0bb3c6bafe57f9ed69350e2dd54edaae58316e8f
arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c
arch/arm/vdso/vdso.lds.S
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/compiler.h
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S
lib/vdso/vgettimeofday.c