Improve performance of time system calls when using Linux pvclock, 
by reading time info from fixmap visible copy of pvclock data.

Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com>

Index: vsyscall/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
===================================================================
--- vsyscall.orig/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ vsyscall/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <asm/hpet.h>
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
+#include <asm/pvclock.h>
 
 #define gtod (&VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data))
 
@@ -62,6 +63,69 @@ static notrace cycle_t vread_hpet(void)
        return readl((const void __iomem *)fix_to_virt(VSYSCALL_HPET) + 0xf0);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK_VSYSCALL
+
+static notrace const struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *get_pvti(int cpu)
+{
+       const aligned_pvti_t *pvti_base;
+       int idx = cpu / (PAGE_SIZE/PVTI_SIZE);
+       int offset = cpu % (PAGE_SIZE/PVTI_SIZE);
+
+       BUG_ON(PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_BEGIN + idx > PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_END);
+
+       pvti_base = (aligned_pvti_t *)__fix_to_virt(PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_BEGIN+idx);
+
+       return &pvti_base[offset].info;
+}
+
+static notrace cycle_t vread_pvclock(int *mode)
+{
+       const struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *pvti;
+       cycle_t ret;
+       u64 last;
+       u32 version;
+       u32 migrate_count;
+       u8 flags;
+       unsigned cpu, cpu1;
+
+
+       /*
+        * When looping to get a consistent (time-info, tsc) pair, we
+        * also need to deal with the possibility we can switch vcpus,
+        * so make sure we always re-fetch time-info for the current vcpu.
+        */
+       do {
+               cpu = __getcpu() & 0xfff;
+               pvti = get_pvti(cpu);
+
+               migrate_count = pvti->migrate_count;
+
+               version = __pvclock_read_cycles(&pvti->pvti, &ret, &flags);
+
+               /*
+                * Test we're still on the cpu as well as the version.
+                * We could have been migrated just after the first
+                * vgetcpu but before fetching the version, so we
+                * wouldn't notice a version change.
+                */
+               cpu1 = __getcpu() & 0xfff;
+       } while (unlikely(cpu != cpu1 ||
+                         (pvti->pvti.version & 1) ||
+                         pvti->pvti.version != version ||
+                         pvti->migrate_count != migrate_count));
+
+       if (unlikely(!(flags & PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT)))
+               *mode = VCLOCK_NONE;
+
+       last = VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data).clock.cycle_last;
+
+       if (likely(ret >= last))
+               return ret;
+
+       return last;
+}
+#endif
+
 notrace static long vdso_fallback_gettime(long clock, struct timespec *ts)
 {
        long ret;
@@ -88,6 +152,8 @@ notrace static inline u64 vgetsns(int *m
                cycles = vread_tsc();
        else if (gtod->clock.vclock_mode == VCLOCK_HPET)
                cycles = vread_hpet();
+       else if (gtod->clock.vclock_mode == VCLOCK_PVCLOCK)
+               cycles = vread_pvclock(mode);
        else
                return 0;
        v = (cycles - gtod->clock.cycle_last) & gtod->clock.mask;
Index: vsyscall/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
===================================================================
--- vsyscall.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
+++ vsyscall/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
@@ -33,6 +33,21 @@ extern void map_vsyscall(void);
  */
 extern bool emulate_vsyscall(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address);
 
+static inline unsigned int __getcpu(void)
+{
+       unsigned int p;
+
+       if (VVAR(vgetcpu_mode) == VGETCPU_RDTSCP) {
+               /* Load per CPU data from RDTSCP */
+               native_read_tscp(&p);
+       } else {
+               /* Load per CPU data from GDT */
+               asm("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
+       }
+
+       return p;
+}
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_VSYSCALL_H */
Index: vsyscall/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
===================================================================
--- vsyscall.orig/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
+++ vsyscall/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
@@ -17,13 +17,8 @@ __vdso_getcpu(unsigned *cpu, unsigned *n
 {
        unsigned int p;
 
-       if (VVAR(vgetcpu_mode) == VGETCPU_RDTSCP) {
-               /* Load per CPU data from RDTSCP */
-               native_read_tscp(&p);
-       } else {
-               /* Load per CPU data from GDT */
-               asm("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
-       }
+       p = __getcpu();
+
        if (cpu)
                *cpu = p & 0xfff;
        if (node)


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