Even if RISC-V has supported the vDSO feature, the latency of the functions
for obtaining the system time is still expensive. It is because these
functions still trigger a corresponding system call in the process, which
slows down the response time. If we want to remove the system call to
reduce the latency, the kernel should have the ability to output the system
clock information to userspace. This patch introduces the vDSO common flow
to enable the kernel to achieve the above feature and uses "rdtime"
instruction to obtain the current time in the user space. Under this
condition, the latency cost by the ecall from U-mode to S-mode can be
eliminated. After applying this patch, the latency of gettimeofday()
measured on the HiFive unleashed board can be reduced by %61.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
sparse identifies several missing prototypes caused by missing
preprocessor include directives:
arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c:16:6: warning: symbol 'has_fpu' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c:26:6: warning: symbol 'arch_cpu_idle' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/riscv/kernel/reset.c:15:6: warning: symbol 'pm_power_off' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c:15:6: warning: symbol 'sys_call_table' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c:149:13: warning: symbol 'trap_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/riscv/kernel/vdso.c:54:5: warning: symbol 'arch_setup_additional_pages' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/riscv/kernel/smp.c:64:6: warning: symbol 'arch_match_cpu_phys_id' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/riscv/kernel/module-sections.c:89:5: warning: symbol 'module_frob_arch_sections' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/riscv/mm/context.c:42:6: warning: symbol 'switch_mm' was not declared. Should it be static?
Fix by including the appropriate header files in the appropriate
source files.
This patch should have no functional impact.
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Export a few symbols used by kvm module. Without this, kvm cannot
be compiled as a module.
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
[paul.walmsley@sifive.com: updated to apply; clarified short patch
description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation version 2 this program is distributed
in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without
even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more
details
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-only
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 97 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141901.025053186@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The RISC-V ISA defines a per-hart real-time clock and timer, which is
present on all systems. The clock is accessed via the 'rdtime'
pseudo-instruction (which reads a CSR), and the timer is set via an SBI
call.
Contains various improvements from Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>.
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Cherkasov <dmitriy@oss-tech.org>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
[hch: remove dead code, add SPDX tags, used riscv_of_processor_hart(),
minor cleanups, merged hotplug cpu support and other improvements
from Atish]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
This code is currently unused and will be added back later in a different
place with the real interrupt and clocksource support.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
This contains the various __init C functions, the initial assembly
kernel entry point, and the code to reset the system. When a file was
init-related this patch contains the entire file.
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
