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 576094b7 ("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>
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