linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso.h
Vincent Chen ad5d1122b8
riscv: use vDSO common flow to reduce the latency of the time-related functions
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>
2020-06-10 19:47:16 -07:00

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
/*
* Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Limited
* Copyright (C) 2014 Regents of the University of California
* Copyright (C) 2017 SiFive
*/
#ifndef _ASM_RISCV_VDSO_H
#define _ASM_RISCV_VDSO_H
#include <linux/types.h>
#ifndef GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
struct vdso_data {
};
#endif
/*
* The VDSO symbols are mapped into Linux so we can just use regular symbol
* addressing to get their offsets in userspace. The symbols are mapped at an
* offset of 0, but since the linker must support setting weak undefined
* symbols to the absolute address 0 it also happens to support other low
* addresses even when the code model suggests those low addresses would not
* otherwise be availiable.
*/
#define VDSO_SYMBOL(base, name) \
({ \
extern const char __vdso_##name[]; \
(void __user *)((unsigned long)(base) + __vdso_##name); \
})
asmlinkage long sys_riscv_flush_icache(uintptr_t, uintptr_t, uintptr_t);
#endif /* _ASM_RISCV_VDSO_H */