do_hres() in the vDSO generic library masks the hw counter value immediately after reading it.
Postpone the mask application after checking if the syscall fallback is enabled, in order to be able to detect a possible fallback for the architectures that have masks smaller than ULLONG_MAX.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino vincenzo.frascino@arm.com --- lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c index ef28cc5d7bff..ee1221ba1d32 100644 --- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c +++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c @@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ static int do_hres(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk,
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); + cycles &= vd->mask; if (cycles > last) ns += (cycles - last) * vd->mult; ns >>= vd->shift;