linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 5/6] lib/vdso: Allow architectures to override the ns shift operation

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Message-Id: <b3d449de856982ed060a71e6ace8eeca4654e685.1580399657.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Date:   Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:08:39 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, nathanl@...ux.ibm.com,
        arnd@...db.de, tglx@...utronix.de, vincenzo.frascino@....com,
        luto@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 5/6] lib/vdso: Allow architectures to override the ns shift
 operation

On powerpc/32, GCC (8.1) generates pretty bad code for the
ns >>= vd->shift operation taking into account that the
shift is always <= 32 and the upper part of the result is
likely to be nul. GCC makes reversed assumptions considering
the shift to be likely >= 32 and the upper part to be like not nul.

unsigned long long shift(unsigned long long x, unsigned char s)
{
	return x >> s;
}

results in:

00000018 <shift>:
  18:	35 25 ff e0 	addic.  r9,r5,-32
  1c:	41 80 00 10 	blt     2c <shift+0x14>
  20:	7c 64 4c 30 	srw     r4,r3,r9
  24:	38 60 00 00 	li      r3,0
  28:	4e 80 00 20 	blr
  2c:	54 69 08 3c 	rlwinm  r9,r3,1,0,30
  30:	21 45 00 1f 	subfic  r10,r5,31
  34:	7c 84 2c 30 	srw     r4,r4,r5
  38:	7d 29 50 30 	slw     r9,r9,r10
  3c:	7c 63 2c 30 	srw     r3,r3,r5
  40:	7d 24 23 78 	or      r4,r9,r4
  44:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

Even when forcing the shift with an &= 31, it still considers
the shift as likely >= 32.

Define a vdso_shift_ns() macro that can be overriden by
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
---
 lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
index 0b4b71880f22..a5ee53d1ecee 100644
--- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
+++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ u64 vdso_calc_delta(u64 cycles, u64 last, u64 mask, u32 mult)
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifndef vdso_shift_ns
+static __always_inline u64 vdso_shift_ns(u64 ns, unsigned long shift)
+{
+	return ns >> shift;
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_TIME_NS
 static int do_hres_timens(const struct vdso_data *vdns, clockid_t clk,
 			  struct __kernel_timespec *ts)
@@ -134,7 +141,7 @@ static __always_inline int do_hres(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk,
 #endif
 
 		ns += vdso_calc_delta(cycles, last, vd->mask, vd->mult);
-		ns >>= vd->shift;
+		ns = vdso_shift_ns(ns, vd->shift);
 		sec = vdso_ts->sec;
 	} while (unlikely(vdso_read_retry(vd, seq)));
 
-- 
2.25.0