linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] xen/arm: introduce xen_read

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1511121128240.526@kaball.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:28:47 +0000
From:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] xen/arm: introduce xen_read_wallclock

On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 November 2015 16:51:35 Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > +static void xen_read_wallclock(struct timespec64 *ts)
> > +{
> > +       u32 version;
> > +       u64 delta;
> > +       struct timespec64 now;
> > +       struct shared_info *s = HYPERVISOR_shared_info;
> > +       struct pvclock_wall_clock *wall_clock = &(s->wc);
> > +
> > +       /* get wallclock at system boot */
> > +       do {
> > +               version = wall_clock->version;
> > +               rmb();          /* fetch version before time */
> > +               now.tv_sec  = ((uint64_t)wall_clock->sec_hi << 32) | wall_clock->sec;
> > +               now.tv_nsec = wall_clock->nsec;
> > +               rmb();          /* fetch time before checking version */
> > +       } while ((wall_clock->version & 1) || (version != wall_clock->version));
> > +
> > +       /* time since system boot */
> > +       delta = ktime_get_ns();
> > +       delta += now.tv_sec * (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC + now.tv_nsec;
> > +
> > +       *ts = ns_to_timespec64(delta);
> > +}
> 
> Looks correct to me and better than the previous versions, but you are still
> converting from timespec64 to nanoseconds and back. While I previously
> recommended going all the way to nanoseconds here, I guess this you
> can even avoid the ns_to_timespec64() if you stay within timespec64
> domain and replace the last lines with
> 
> 	ktime_get_ts64(&ts_monotonic);
> 	*ts = timespec64_add(now, ts_monotonic);
> 
> which avoids both the multiplication and division.

Much better, I'll do that.  Thanks for the suggestion!
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