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Thomas Gleixner committed 4f72adc5068
x86/vdso: Simplify the invalid vclock case The code flow for the vclocks is convoluted as it requires the vclocks which can be invalidated separately from the vsyscall_gtod_data sequence to store the fact in a separate variable. That's inefficient. Restructure the code so the vclock readout returns cycles and the conversion to nanoseconds is handled at the call site. If the clock gets invalidated or vclock is already VCLOCK_NONE, return U64_MAX as the cycle value, which is invalid for all clocks and leave the sequence loop immediately in that case by calling the fallback function directly. This allows to remove the gettimeofday fallback as it now uses the clock_gettime() fallback and does the nanoseconds to microseconds conversion in the same way as it does when the vclock is functional. It does not make a difference whether the division by 1000 happens in the kernel fallback or in userspace. Generates way better code and gains a few cycles back. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Matt Rickard <matt@softrans.com.au> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180917130707.657928937@linutronix.de