On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 03:01:53PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On 32-bit x86 when building with clang-9, the loop gets turned back into
> an inefficient division that causes a link error:
>
> kernel/time/vsyscall.o: In function `update_vsyscall':
> vsyscall.c:(.text+0xe3): undefined reference to `__udivdi3'
>
> Use the provided __iter_div_u64_rem() function that is meant to address
> the same case in other files.
>
> Fixes: 44f57d788e7d ("timekeeping: Provide a generic update_vsyscall() implementation")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/time/vsyscall.c | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/vsyscall.c b/kernel/time/vsyscall.c
> index a80893180826..8cf3596a4ce6 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/vsyscall.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/vsyscall.c
> @@ -104,11 +104,7 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk)
> vdso_ts->sec = tk->xtime_sec + tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec;
> nsec = tk->tkr_mono.xtime_nsec >> tk->tkr_mono.shift;
> nsec = nsec + tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec;
> - while (nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC) {
> - nsec = nsec - NSEC_PER_SEC;
> - vdso_ts->sec++;
> - }
> - vdso_ts->nsec = 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);
> --
> 2.20.0
>
What an interesting function. Looks good to me and I can confirm it
fixes the link error.
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
