Re: lib/vdso: Make delta calculation work correctly

Hi Thomas,

On 26/06/2019 11:02, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

The x86 vdso implementation on which the generic vdso library is based on has subtle (unfortunately undocumented) twists:

1. The code assumes that the clocksource mask is U64_MAX which means that no bits are masked. Which is true for any valid x86 VDSO clocksource. Stupidly it still did the mask operation for no reason and at the wrong place right after reading the clocksource.

2. It contains a sanity check to catch the case where slightly unsynchronized TSC values can be overserved which would cause the delta calculation to make a huge jump. It therefore checks whether the current TSC value is larger than the value on which the current conversion is based on. If it's not larger the base value is used to prevent time jumps.

#1 Is not only stupid for the X86 case because it does the masking for no reason it is also completely wrong for clocksources with a smaller mask which can legitimately wrap around during a conversion period. The core timekeeping code does it correct by applying the mask after the delta calculation:

(now - base) & mask

#2 is equally broken for clocksources which have smaller masks and can wrap around during a conversion period because there the now > base check is just wrong and causes stale time stamps and time going backwards issues.

Unbreak it by:

1. Removing the mask operation from the clocksource read which makes the fallback detection work for all clocksources

2. Replacing the conditional delta calculation with a overrideable inline function.

#2 could reuse clocksource_delta() from the timekeeping code but that results in a significant performance hit for the x86 VSDO. The timekeeping core code must have the non optimized version as it has to operate correctly with clocksources which have smaller masks as well to handle the case where TSC is discarded as timekeeper clocksource and replaced by HPET or pmtimer. For the VDSO there is no replacement clocksource. If TSC is unusable the syscall is enforced which does the right thing.

To accomodate to the needs of various architectures provide an overrideable inline function which defaults to the regular delta calculation with masking:

(now - base) & mask

Override it for x86 with the non-masking and checking version.

This unbreaks the ARM64 syscall fallback operation, allows to use clocksources with arbitrary width and preserves the performance optimization for x86.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de

A part a typo that leads to compilation errors on non-x86 platforms the rest looks fine by me.

I tested it on arm64 and behaves correctly.

With this:

Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino vincenzo.frascino@arm.com

---

arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h @@ -229,6 +229,33 @@ static __always_inline const struct vdso return __vdso_data; } +/*

• • x86 specific delta calculation.
• • The regular implementation assumes that clocksource reads are globally
• • monotonic. The TSC can be slightly off across sockets which can cause
• • the regular delta calculation (@cycles - @last) to return a huge time
• • jump.
• • Therefore it needs to be verified that @cycles are greater than
• • @last. If not then use @last, which is the base time of the current
• • conversion period.
• • This variant also removes the masking of the subtraction because the
• • clocksource mask of all VDSO capable clocksources on x86 is U64_MAX
• • which would result in a pointless operation. The compiler cannot
• • optimize it away as the mask comes from the vdso data and is not compile
• • time constant.
• */

+static __always_inline +u64 vdso_calc_delta(u64 cycles, u64 last, u64 mask, u32 mult) +{

• if (cycles > last)

• return (cycles - last) * mult;
  

• return 0;

+} +#define vdso_calc_delta vdso_calc_delta

#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ #endif /* __ASM_VDSO_GETTIMEOFDAY_H */ --- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c +++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c @@ -26,6 +26,18 @@ #include <asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h> #endif /* ENABLE_COMPAT_VDSO */ +#ifndef vdso_calc_delta +/*

• • Default implementation which works for all sane clocksources. That
• • obviously excludes x86/TSC.
• */

+static __always_inline +u64 vdso_calc_delta(u64 cycles, u64 last, u64 mask, u32 mult) +{

• return ((cyles - last) & mask) * mult;

Typo here:

s/cyles/cycles/

+} +#endif

static int do_hres(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk, struct __kernel_timespec *ts) { @@ -35,14 +47,13 @@ static int do_hres(const struct vdso_dat do { seq = vdso_read_begin(vd);

• cycles = __arch_get_hw_counter(vd->clock_mode) &
  

• 	vd->mask;
  

• cycles = __arch_get_hw_counter(vd->clock_mode);
  

  ns = vdso_ts->nsec; last = vd->cycle_last; if (unlikely((s64)cycles < 0)) return clock_gettime_fallback(clk, ts);

• if (cycles > last)
  

• 	ns += (cycles - last) * vd->mult;
  

• ns += vdso_calc_delta(cycles, last, vd->mask, vd->mult);
  

  ns >>= vd->shift; sec = vdso_ts->sec; } while (unlikely(vdso_read_retry(vd, seq)));