Commit-ID: bcc4a62a73cb65327d7268fbfa3a786d603f52dc
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/bcc4a62a73cb65327d7268fbfa3a786d603f52dc
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:44:45 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 10:12:18 +0200
x86/vdso: Document vgtod_ts better
After reading do_hres() and do_course() and scratching my head a
bit, I figured out why the arithmetic is strange. Document it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f66f53d81150bbad47d7b282c9207a71a3ce1c16.1538689401.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
index d17b092b9f1b..69d05c6d47f5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ typedef u64 gtod_long_t;
typedef unsigned long gtod_long_t;
#endif
+/*
+ * There is one of these objects in the vvar page for each
+ * vDSO-accelerated clockid. For high-resolution clocks, this encodes
+ * the time corresponding to vsyscall_gtod_data.cycle_last. For coarse
+ * clocks, this encodes the actual time.
+ *
+ * To confuse the reader, for high-resolution clocks, nsec is left-shifted
+ * by vsyscall_gtod_data.shift.
+ */
struct vgtod_ts {
u64 sec;
u64 nsec;
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