[PATCH 03/19] vdso: Make vdso_time_data cacheline aligned

Thomas Weißschuh thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de
Mon Mar 3 03:11:05 PST 2025


From: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria at linutronix.de>

vdso_time_data is not cacheline aligned at the moment. When instantiating
an array, the start of the second array member is not cache line aligned.
This increases the number of the required cache lines which needs to be
read when handling e.g. CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, because the data spawns an
extra cache line if the previous data does not end at a cache line
boundary.

Therefore make struct vdso_time_data cacheline aligned.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de>
---
 include/vdso/datapage.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/vdso/datapage.h b/include/vdso/datapage.h
index ed4fb4c06e3ee6423fe68ccb476565213f234863..dfd98f969f151eca3c551c3e90f69af9ee8f22bb 100644
--- a/include/vdso/datapage.h
+++ b/include/vdso/datapage.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 #include <vdso/align.h>
 #include <vdso/bits.h>
+#include <vdso/cache.h>
 #include <vdso/clocksource.h>
 #include <vdso/ktime.h>
 #include <vdso/limits.h>
@@ -126,7 +127,7 @@ struct vdso_time_data {
 	u32			__unused;
 
 	struct arch_vdso_time_data arch_data;
-};
+} ____cacheline_aligned;
 
 /**
  * struct vdso_rng_data - vdso RNG state information

-- 
2.48.1




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