lib/vdso: Force inlining of __cvdso_clock_gettime_common()

When adding gettime64() to a 32 bit architecture (namely powerpc/32)
it has been noticed that GCC doesn't inline anymore
__cvdso_clock_gettime_common() because it is called twice
(Once by __cvdso_clock_gettime() and once by
__cvdso_clock_gettime32).

This has the effect of seriously degrading the performance:

Before the implementation of gettime64(), gettime() runs in:

  clock-gettime-monotonic-raw:	    vdso: 1003 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse:   vdso:  592 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic:          vdso:  942 nsec/call

When adding a gettime64() entry point, the standard gettime()
performance is degraded by 30% to 50%:

  clock-gettime-monotonic-raw:      vdso: 1300 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse:   vdso:  900 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic:          vdso: 1232 nsec/call

Adding __always_inline() to __cvdso_clock_gettime_common() regains the
original performance.

In terms of code size, the inlining increases the code size by only 176
bytes. This is in the noise for a kernel image.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1ab6a62c356c3bec35d1623563ef9c636205bcda.1588079622.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr

diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
index a2909af4b9240adb6160f0bcdb76179a713d95c1..7938d3c4901d1b657cccda9cf1fb10eab3d2eb4e 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
+++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static __always_inline int do_coarse(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clk,
        return 0;
 }
 
-static __maybe_unused int
+static __always_inline int
 __cvdso_clock_gettime_common(const struct vdso_data *vd, clockid_t clock,
                             struct __kernel_timespec *ts)
 {