In do_hres(), we currently use whether the return value of __arch_get_ hw_counter() is negative to indicate fallback, but this is not a good idea because:

1, ARM64 returns ULL_MAX but MIPS returns 0 when clock_mode is invalid; 2, For a 64bit counter, a "negative" value of counter is actually valid.

It is sure that MIPS has a bug when clock_mode is invalid and should return ULL_MAX as ARM64 does (Vincenzo has already submitted a patch). But do_hres() can still be improved so we use U64_MAX as the only "invalid" return value -- this is still not fully correct, but it is the simplest fix and has no problem in most cases (we can hardly see a 64bit counter overflow).

By the way, currently update_vdso_data() and update_vsyscall_tz() rely on __arch_use_vsyscall(), which causes __cvdso_clock_getres() and some other functions get wrong results when clock_mode is invalid. So, we update vdso data unconditionally.

Fixes: 00b26474c2f1613d7ab894c5 ("lib/vdso: Provide generic VDSO implementation") Fixes: 44f57d788e7deecb50484353 ("timekeeping: Provide a generic update_vsyscall() implementation") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Cc: Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen chenhc@lemote.com --- kernel/time/vsyscall.c | 9 +++------ lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/vsyscall.c b/kernel/time/vsyscall.c index 4bc37ac..5ee0f77 100644 --- a/kernel/time/vsyscall.c +++ b/kernel/time/vsyscall.c @@ -110,8 +110,7 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk) nsec = nsec + tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec; vdso_ts->sec += __iter_div_u64_rem(nsec, NSEC_PER_SEC, &vdso_ts->nsec);

- if (__arch_use_vsyscall(vdata)) - update_vdso_data(vdata, tk); + update_vdso_data(vdata, tk);

__arch_update_vsyscall(vdata, tk);

@@ -124,10 +123,8 @@ void update_vsyscall_tz(void) { struct vdso_data *vdata = __arch_get_k_vdso_data();

- if (__arch_use_vsyscall(vdata)) { - vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].tz_minuteswest = sys_tz.tz_minuteswest; - vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].tz_dsttime = sys_tz.tz_dsttime; - } + vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].tz_minuteswest = sys_tz.tz_minuteswest; + vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].tz_dsttime = sys_tz.tz_dsttime;

__arch_sync_vdso_data(vdata); } diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c index e630e7f..5a31643 100644 --- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c +++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static int do_hres(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk, cycles = __arch_get_hw_counter(vd->clock_mode); ns = vdso_ts->nsec; last = vd->cycle_last; - if (unlikely((s64)cycles < 0)) + if (unlikely(cycles == U64_MAX)) return -1;

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