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The generic storage implementation provides the same features as the
custom one. However it can be shared between architectures, making
maintenance easier.
Co-developed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250204-vdso-store-rng-v3-9-13a4669dfc8c@linutronix.de
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Since the generic VDSO clock mode storage is used, this header file is
unused and can be removed.
This avoids including a non-VDSO header while building the VDSO,
which can lead to compilation errors.
Also drop the comment which is out of date and in the wrong place.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241010-vdso-generic-arch_update_vsyscall-v1-5-7fe5a3ea4382@linutronix.de
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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>
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