Some applications, especially tracing ones, benefit from avoiding the syscall overhead for getcpu() so it is common for architectures to have vDSO implementations. Add one for arm64, using TPIDRRO_EL0 to pass a pointer to per-CPU data rather than just store the immediate value in order to allow for future extensibility.
It is questionable if something TPIDRRO_EL0 based is worthwhile at all on current kernels, since v4.18 we have had support for restartable sequences which can be used to provide a sched_getcpu() implementation with generally better performance than the vDSO approach on architectures which have that[1]. Work is ongoing to implement this for glibc:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200527185130.5604-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficio...
but is not yet merged and will need similar work for other userspaces. The main advantages for the vDSO implementation are the node parameter (though this is a static mapping to CPU number so could be looked up separately when processing data if it's needed, it shouldn't need to be in the hot path) and ease of implementation for users.
This is currently not compatible with KPTI due to the use of TPIDRRO_EL0 by the KPTI trampoline, this could be addressed by reinitializing that system register in the return path but I have found it hard to justify adding that overhead for all users for something that is essentially a profiling optimization which is likely to get superceeded by a more modern implementation - if there are other uses for the per-CPU data then the balance might change here.
This builds on work done by Kristina Martsenko some time ago but is a new implementation.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i...
v3: - Rebase on v5.9-rc1. - Drop in progress portions of the series. v2: - Rebase on v5.8-rc3. - Add further cleanup patches & a first draft of multi-page support.
Mark Brown (5): arm64: vdso: Provide a define when building the vDSO arm64: vdso: Add per-CPU data arm64: vdso: Initialise the per-CPU vDSO data arm64: vdso: Add getcpu() implementation selftests: vdso: Support arm64 in getcpu() test
arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 12 +---- arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/datapage.h | 54 +++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 26 ++++++++- arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c | 33 +++++++++++- arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgetcpu.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++ .../testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_test_getcpu.c | 10 ++++ 8 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/datapage.h create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgetcpu.c