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Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:51:00 -0800
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kumar Sundararajan <kumar@...com>,
john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Add clock_gettime_ns syscall
On some architectures, clock_gettime is fast enough that converting
between nanoseconds and struct timespec takes a significant amount
of time. Introduce a new syscall that does the same thing but
returns the answer in nanoseconds. 2^64 nanoseconds since the epoch
won't wrap around until the year 2554, and by then we can use
128-bit types.
clock_gettime_ns returns an unsigned nanosecond count. It will wrap
when the time from whatever clock is being read exceeds about 584
years. For CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_BOOTTIME, etc, this is unlikely
to be a problem. For CLOCK_REALTIME, either user code can check for
wraparound or can switch to 128-bit integers in a little over 500
years.
This interface intentionally does not support sub-nanosecond
precision. For one thing, light only travels about a foot per
nanosecond, so nanoseconds are really pretty good for networking
purposes. For another, 2^64 picoseconds (say) is a short enough
interval to be inconvenient. If anyone needs sub-nanosecond
precision for anything other than profiling, they're welcome to
figure out an appropriate interface. For very precise profiling,
"what time is it" is the wrong question, anyway -- modern CPUs can
reorder things across time scales much longer than a nanosecond.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h | 2 ++
include/linux/syscalls.h | 3 +++
include/linux/time.h | 5 +++++
kernel/posix-timers.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
index 2010405..3a48069 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
@@ -683,6 +683,8 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_sendmmsg, sys_sendmmsg)
__SYSCALL(__NR_setns, sys_setns)
#define __NR_getcpu 309
__SYSCALL(__NR_getcpu, sys_getcpu)
+#define __NR_clock_gettime_ns 310
+__SYSCALL(__NR_clock_gettime_ns, sys_clock_gettime_ns)
#ifndef __NO_STUBS
#define __ARCH_WANT_OLD_READDIR
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 1ff0ec2..89cb897 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ struct statfs;
struct statfs64;
struct __sysctl_args;
struct sysinfo;
+struct timens;
struct timespec;
struct timeval;
struct timex;
@@ -316,6 +317,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_clock_settime(clockid_t which_clock,
const struct timespec __user *tp);
asmlinkage long sys_clock_gettime(clockid_t which_clock,
struct timespec __user *tp);
+asmlinkage long sys_clock_gettime_ns(clockid_t which_clock,
+ struct timens __user *tp);
asmlinkage long sys_clock_adjtime(clockid_t which_clock,
struct timex __user *tx);
asmlinkage long sys_clock_getres(clockid_t which_clock,
diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
index b306178..d4488b1 100644
--- a/include/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/linux/time.h
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ struct timezone {
int tz_dsttime; /* type of dst correction */
};
+struct timens {
+ u64 ns; /* nanoseconds since the relevant epoch */
+ u64 padding; /* for future expansion (UTC offset? sub-ns?) */
+};
+
#ifdef __KERNEL__
extern struct timezone sys_tz;
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index 4556182..43bc842 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -980,6 +980,36 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(clock_gettime, const clockid_t, which_clock,
return error;
}
+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(clock_gettime_ns, const clockid_t, which_clock,
+ struct timens __user *, tp)
+{
+ /*
+ * This implementation isn't as fast as it could be, but the syscall
+ * entry will take much longer than the unnecessary division and
+ * multiplication. Arch-specific implementations can be made faster.
+ */
+
+ struct k_clock *kc = clockid_to_kclock(which_clock);
+ struct timespec kernel_timespec;
+ struct timens timens;
+ int error;
+
+ if (!kc)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ error = kc->clock_get(which_clock, &kernel_timespec);
+
+ if (!error) {
+ timens.ns = kernel_timespec.tv_sec * NSEC_PER_SEC
+ + kernel_timespec.tv_nsec;
+ timens.padding = 0;
+
+ error = copy_to_user(tp, &timens, sizeof(timens));
+ }
+
+ return error;
+}
+
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(clock_adjtime, const clockid_t, which_clock,
struct timex __user *, utx)
{
--
1.7.7.4
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