Adrian Hunter
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Kernel timekeeping is designed to keep the change in cycles (since the last timer interrupt) below max_cycles, which prevents multiplication overflow when converting cycles to nanoseconds. However, if timer interrupts stop, the calculation will eventually overflow. Add protection against that. Select GENERIC_VDSO_OVERFLOW_PROTECT so that max_cycles is made available in the VDSO data page. Check against max_cycles, falling back to a slower higher precision calculation. Take advantage of the opportunity to move masking and negative motion check into the slow path. The result is a calculation that has similar performance as before. Newer machines showed performance benefit, whereas older Skylake-based hardware such as Intel Kaby Lake was seen <1% worse. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325064023.2997-9-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.