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Paul Mackerras d4cfb11387 powerpc: Convert VDSO update function to use new update_vsyscall interface 
This converts the powerpc VDSO time update function to use the new
interface introduced in commit 576094b7f0 ("time: Introduce new
GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL", 2012-09-11).  Where the old interface gave
us the time as of the last update in seconds and whole nanoseconds,
with the new interface we get the nanoseconds part effectively in
a binary fixed-point format with tk->tkr_mono.shift bits to the
right of the binary point.

With the old interface, the fractional nanoseconds got truncated,
meaning that the value returned by the VDSO clock_gettime function
would have about 1ns of jitter in it compared to the value computed
by the generic timekeeping code in the kernel.

The powerpc VDSO time functions (clock_gettime and gettimeofday)
already work in units of 2^-32 seconds, or 0.23283 ns, because that
makes it simple to split the result into seconds and fractional
seconds, and represent the fractional seconds in either microseconds
or nanoseconds.  This is good enough accuracy for now, so this patch
avoids changing how the VDSO works or the interface in the VDSO data
page.

This patch converts the powerpc update_vsyscall_old to be called
update_vsyscall and use the new interface.  We convert the fractional
second to units of 2^-32 seconds without truncating to whole nanoseconds.
(There is still a conversion to whole nanoseconds for any legacy users
of the vdso_data/systemcfg stamp_xtime field.)

In addition, this improves the accuracy of the computation of tb_to_xs
for those systems with high-frequency timebase clocks (>= 268.5 MHz)
by doing the right shift in two parts, one before the multiplication and
one after, rather than doing the right shift before the multiplication.
(We can't do all of the right shift after the multiplication unless we
use 128-bit arithmetic.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-22 16:26:23 +10:00
arch powerpc: Convert VDSO update function to use new update_vsyscall interface 2017-06-22 16:26:23 +10:00
block Merge branch 'nvme-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme into for-linus 2017-05-26 09:11:19 -06:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - Add missing API setkey checks 2017-05-18 13:04:05 +08:00
Documentation powerpc/fadump: Update comment about offset where fadump is reserved 2017-06-02 20:16:49 +10:00
drivers powerpc/64s/idle: Move soft interrupt mask logic into C code 2017-06-19 19:46:26 +10:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Changed since last update: 2017-05-26 12:13:08 -07:00
include powerpc: Link warning for orphan sections 2017-05-30 14:59:51 +10:00
init Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
ipc mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-27 09:14:24 -07:00
lib test_bpf: Add a couple of tests for BPF_JSGE. 2017-05-25 14:37:56 -04:00
mm mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-26 13:51:01 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: run cleanup routines when receiving SIGTERM 2017-05-11 21:43:30 -04:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.12-rc: 2017-05-19 15:03:24 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-09 09:12:53 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.12-rc3 2017-05-26 09:03:09 -07:00
tools selftests/powerpc: context_switch use private futexes with threads 2017-06-05 16:55:01 +10:00
usr initramfs: provide a way to ignore image provided by bootloader 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Hold slots_lock when unregistering kvm io bus devices 2017-05-18 11:18:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update my email address from freescale to nxp 2017-06-05 16:58:13 +10:00
Makefile Linux 4.12-rc3 2017-05-28 17:20:53 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.