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Nathan Lynch b65d3e5f0f ARM: VDSO support
Beginning with the upcoming 4.1 release, Linux on a subset of 32-bit
ARM hardware will provide fast user-space implementations of the
following system calls:

- gettimeofday
- clock_gettime

The kernel implementation depends on the ARMv7 Generic Timers
Extension to accelerate these system calls.  So CPUs such as
Cortex-A15 and -A7 benefit, while Cortex-A9, -A8, and pre-v7 CPUs do
not.  On systems where the VDSO does not provide any speedup, the
kernel prevents the relevant symbol lookups from succeeding.

On OMAP5 (Cortex-A15) gettimeofday latency decreases from ~350ns to
~120ns.  On BeagleBone Black (Cortex-A8) it goes from ~650ns to
~660ns, which to my mind is an acceptable cost.

Verified that no new test failures are introduced on kernels with and
without the VDSO.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/Makefile: (sysdep_routines):
	Include dl-vdso.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/init-first.c: New file:
	Use VDSO routines for gettimeofday, clock_gettime if
	available.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/libc-vdso.h: New file:
	Declare VDSO symbols.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/sysdep.h:
	[HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY_VSYSCALL]: Define.
	[HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME_VSYSCALL]: Define.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/Versions: Add
	__vdso_clock_gettime.
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argp Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:29:47 +00:00
assert Add ersatz _Static_assert on older C hosts 2015-02-07 14:43:27 -08:00
benchtests benchtest: script to compare two benchmarks 2015-06-01 23:14:11 +05:30
bits This patch adds infrastructure for addition of SIMD 2015-05-14 18:07:06 +03:00
catgets Update copyright dates not handled by scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:54:45 +00:00
conf (NEED_INETADDR, NEED_INETATON): Define to 1, not empty. 1995-09-08 20:24:57 +00:00
conform Fix fnmatch strnlen namespace (bug 18470). 2015-06-03 13:58:58 +00:00
crypt Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:29:47 +00:00
csu Compile gcrt1.o with -fPIC 2015-02-23 06:28:33 -08:00
ctype Fix isblank / isascii / toascii namespace (bug 17635). 2015-01-05 15:06:57 +00:00
debug Let tests result in UNSUPPORTED; use that for unbuildable C++ cases 2015-03-10 15:13:14 -07:00
dirent Nit fixes in last change. 2015-05-13 12:39:01 -07:00
dlfcn Convert dlfcn/tststatic to use test-skeleton. 2015-03-27 12:55:25 -07:00
elf BZ#18383: Another test case, with TLS refs and defs in separate TUs. 2015-06-02 16:55:36 -07:00
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grp grp: Rewrite to use struct scratch_buffer instead of extend_alloca 2015-04-08 21:07:03 +02:00
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hesiod Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:29:47 +00:00
hurd Fix warnings 2015-03-21 04:49:44 +01:00
iconv Convert tst-iconv3 to use test-skeleton. 2015-02-25 16:01:13 -08:00
iconvdata Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:29:47 +00:00
include Fix fnmatch wmemchr namespace (bug 18468). 2015-06-03 13:57:40 +00:00
inet * inet/rcmd.c (rresvport_af): Change ss to anonymous union 2015-05-19 13:09:01 -07:00
intl Remove obsolete aliases that broke 'locale -a' 2015-05-22 15:12:01 -07:00
io posix_fallocate, posix_fallocate64 stub: Do not set errno 2015-04-24 20:08:43 +02:00
libidn Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:29:47 +00:00
libio Fix indentation to match nesting in previous commit 2015-05-22 13:35:45 +02:00
locale Improve strcoll with strdiff. 2015-05-12 11:37:52 +02:00
localedata Fix sorting order for Ukrainian locale (BZ 17293) 2015-05-26 23:51:18 +05:30
login Move tst-getlogin to login/ subdirectory. 2015-02-06 12:29:27 -08:00
mach Fix warnings 2015-03-21 04:49:44 +01:00
malloc Fix for test "malloc_usable_size: expected 7 but got 11" 2015-05-19 12:10:26 -07:00
manual Fix typo in safety annotations in envz_remove 2015-05-20 02:36:13 +05:30
math This patch renames all uses of __isinf*, __isnan*, __finite* and __signbit* to use standard C99 macros. This has no effect on generated code. 2015-06-03 15:41:36 +01:00
mathvec This is update for configure, build and install of vector math library. 2015-05-14 18:07:06 +03:00
misc Fix search.h namespace (bug 17996). 2015-02-18 18:47:34 +00:00
nis Separate internal state between getXXent and getXXbyYY NSS calls (bug 18007) 2015-05-11 10:41:49 +02:00
nptl Fix missing wake-ups in pthread_rwlock_rdlock. 2015-06-04 15:34:30 +02:00
nptl_db Fix DTV race, assert, DTV_SURPLUS Static TLS limit, and nptl_db garbage 2015-03-17 00:31:49 -03:00
nscd nscd_getgr_r: Use struct scratch_buffer instead of extend_alloca 2015-04-08 21:08:03 +02:00
nss Separate internal state between getXXent and getXXbyYY NSS calls (bug 18007) 2015-05-11 10:41:49 +02:00
po glibc 2.21 pre-release update. 2015-02-05 23:14:38 -05:00
posix Fix fnmatch strnlen namespace (bug 18470). 2015-06-03 13:58:58 +00:00
pwd tst-getpw: Rewrite. 2015-01-21 10:08:18 -05:00
resolv * resolv/res_hconf.c (_res_hconf_reorder_addrs): Use a union to 2015-06-01 09:00:05 -07:00
resource Fix posix_spawn getrlimit64 namespace (bug 17991). 2015-02-18 00:26:35 +00:00
rt Conditionalize some test code for SIGRTMIN, SA_SIGINFO. 2015-03-04 15:14:56 -08:00
scripts Add more exception to local headers list 2015-03-23 00:31:02 +01:00
setjmp Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:29:47 +00:00
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signal Clean up allocrtsig code. 2015-01-08 15:31:15 -08:00
socket Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:29:47 +00:00
soft-fp Fix soft-fp fma for -Wuninitialized. 2015-05-22 20:28:50 +00:00
stdio-common This patch renames all uses of __isinf*, __isnan*, __finite* and __signbit* to use standard C99 macros. This has no effect on generated code. 2015-06-03 15:41:36 +01:00
stdlib Fix setenv.c diagnostic pragma to be compatible with GCC 4.6 2015-06-02 12:58:45 -07:00
streams Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:29:47 +00:00
string Use libc_hidden_proto / libc_hidden_def with __strnlen. 2015-06-02 20:24:25 +00:00
sunrpc Use calloc to allocate xports (BZ #17542) 2015-03-18 14:51:26 +05:30
sysdeps ARM: VDSO support 2015-06-04 21:10:43 +00:00
sysvipc Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:29:47 +00:00
termios Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:29:47 +00:00
time Check tzspec_len == 0 in __tzfile_read 2015-04-27 09:57:51 -07:00
timezone Make time zone file parser more robust [BZ #17715] 2015-04-24 17:34:48 +02:00
wcsmbs Fix fnmatch wmemchr namespace (bug 18468). 2015-06-03 13:57:40 +00:00
wctype Fix fnmatch towlower namespace (bug 18469). 2015-06-02 20:23:09 +00:00
.gitattributes exempt timezone files from the no-bad-whitespace policy 2009-06-15 18:15:54 +02:00
.gitignore Add *.pyc to .gitignore 2015-05-18 15:26:26 +05:30
abi-tags Add arm-nacl port. 2015-04-17 09:02:19 -07:00
aclocal.m4 Make aclocal.m4 comment mention updating install.texi for autoconf version. 2014-10-31 22:44:17 +00:00
BUGS [BZ #5222] 2007-10-28 08:24:07 +00:00
ChangeLog ARM: VDSO support 2015-06-04 21:10:43 +00:00
ChangeLog.1 * Makefile (distribute): Add ChangeLog.[0-9]. 1995-04-14 03:52:54 +00:00
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config.h.in [AArch64] Fix the big endian loader name. 2015-05-01 13:58:55 +01:00
config.make.in Add a testcase for copy reloc against protected data 2015-03-31 05:21:12 -07:00
configure This is update for configure, build and install of vector math library. 2015-05-14 18:07:06 +03:00
configure.ac This is update for configure, build and install of vector math library. 2015-05-14 18:07:06 +03:00
CONFORMANCE Move __STDC_* predefined macros from features.h to stdc-predef.h. 2012-02-22 12:53:04 +00:00
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cppflags-iterator.mk 2004-03-11 Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> 2004-03-14 19:13:17 +00:00
extra-lib.mk Remove NOT_IN_libc 2014-11-24 15:03:45 +05:30
extra-modules.mk Remove NOT_IN_libc 2014-11-24 15:03:45 +05:30
gen-locales.mk Split locale generation snippet into a separate file 2015-05-13 13:05:28 +05:30
INSTALL Document test-wrapper-env-only in INSTALL. 2015-03-06 10:59:15 -08:00
libc-abis A few more archs have IFUNC support. 2010-03-17 02:43:12 -07:00
LICENSES Expand LICENSES file. 2012-12-05 21:56:15 +00:00
Makeconfig This is update for configure, build and install of vector math library. 2015-05-14 18:07:06 +03:00
Makefile Succeed if make check does not report any errors 2015-05-19 06:36:29 +05:30
Makefile.in Remove redundant C locale settings. 2014-06-07 19:58:36 +00:00
Makerules Support after-link variable to run a final step on binaries. 2015-02-12 13:38:47 -08:00
NAMESPACE Add and update many more entries. 2000-03-20 00:42:58 +00:00
NEWS Fix missing wake-ups in pthread_rwlock_rdlock. 2015-06-04 15:34:30 +02:00
o-iterator.mk Fri Mar 17 12:58:37 1995 Roland McGrath <roland@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu> 1995-03-17 18:42:51 +00:00
PROJECTS Update. 2004-10-12 06:19:23 +00:00
README Another pointless update in README. 2015-02-11 14:39:30 -08:00
Rules Let tests result in UNSUPPORTED; use that for unbuildable C++ cases 2015-03-10 15:13:14 -07:00
shlib-versions This is update for configure, build and install of vector math library. 2015-05-14 18:07:06 +03:00
test-skeleton.c Ensure `wint_t' is defined before use in include/stdio.h 2015-05-18 12:28:06 +05:30
version.h Open development for 2.22. 2015-02-06 02:03:41 -05:00
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