From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>,
John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [patch 14/48] timekeeping: Allow inlining clocksource::read()
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:36:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260224163429.675151545@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20260224163022.795809588@kernel.org
On some architectures clocksource::read() boils down to a single
instruction, so the indirect function call is just a massive overhead
especially with speculative execution mitigations in effect.
Allow architectures to enable conditional inlining of that read to avoid
that by:
- providing a static branch to switch to the inlined variant
- disabling the branch before clocksource changes
- enabling the branch after a clocksource change, when the clocksource
indicates in a feature flag that it is the one which provides the
inlined variant
This is intentionally not a static call as that would only remove the
indirect call, but not the rest of the overhead.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/clocksource.h | 2 +
kernel/time/Kconfig | 3 +
kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/clocksource.h
+++ b/include/linux/clocksource.h
@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ struct clocksource {
#define CLOCK_SOURCE_SUSPEND_NONSTOP 0x80
#define CLOCK_SOURCE_RESELECT 0x100
#define CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU 0x200
+#define CLOCK_SOURCE_CAN_INLINE_READ 0x400
+
/* simplify initialization of mask field */
#define CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(bits) GENMASK_ULL((bits) - 1, 0)
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_INIT
bool
+config ARCH_WANTS_CLOCKSOURCE_READ_INLINE
+ bool
+
# Timekeeping vsyscall support
config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
bool
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -3,34 +3,30 @@
* Kernel timekeeping code and accessor functions. Based on code from
* timer.c, moved in commit 8524070b7982.
*/
-#include <linux/timekeeper_internal.h>
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/interrupt.h>
+#include <linux/audit.h>
+#include <linux/clocksource.h>
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/kobject.h>
-#include <linux/percpu.h>
-#include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/nmi.h>
-#include <linux/sched.h>
-#include <linux/sched/loadavg.h>
+#include <linux/pvclock_gtod.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/sched/clock.h>
+#include <linux/sched/loadavg.h>
+#include <linux/static_key.h>
+#include <linux/stop_machine.h>
#include <linux/syscore_ops.h>
-#include <linux/clocksource.h>
-#include <linux/jiffies.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/timex.h>
-#include <linux/tick.h>
-#include <linux/stop_machine.h>
-#include <linux/pvclock_gtod.h>
-#include <linux/compiler.h>
-#include <linux/audit.h>
-#include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/timekeeper_internal.h>
#include <vdso/auxclock.h>
#include "tick-internal.h"
-#include "ntp_internal.h"
#include "timekeeping_internal.h"
+#include "ntp_internal.h"
#define TK_CLEAR_NTP (1 << 0)
#define TK_CLOCK_WAS_SET (1 << 1)
@@ -275,6 +271,11 @@ static inline void tk_update_sleep_time(
tk->monotonic_to_boot = ktime_to_timespec64(tk->offs_boot);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_CLOCKSOURCE_READ_INLINE
+#include <asm/clock_inlined.h>
+
+static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(clocksource_read_inlined);
+
/*
* tk_clock_read - atomic clocksource read() helper
*
@@ -288,13 +289,36 @@ static inline void tk_update_sleep_time(
* a read of the fast-timekeeper tkrs (which is protected by its own locking
* and update logic).
*/
-static inline u64 tk_clock_read(const struct tk_read_base *tkr)
+static __always_inline u64 tk_clock_read(const struct tk_read_base *tkr)
{
struct clocksource *clock = READ_ONCE(tkr->clock);
+ if (static_branch_likely(&clocksource_read_inlined))
+ return arch_inlined_clocksource_read(clock);
+
return clock->read(clock);
}
+static inline void clocksource_disable_inline_read(void)
+{
+ static_branch_disable(&clocksource_read_inlined);
+}
+
+static inline void clocksource_enable_inline_read(void)
+{
+ static_branch_enable(&clocksource_read_inlined);
+}
+#else
+static __always_inline u64 tk_clock_read(const struct tk_read_base *tkr)
+{
+ struct clocksource *clock = READ_ONCE(tkr->clock);
+
+ return clock->read(clock);
+}
+static inline void clocksource_disable_inline_read(void) { }
+static inline void clocksource_enable_inline_read(void) { }
+#endif
+
/**
* tk_setup_internals - Set up internals to use clocksource clock.
*
@@ -375,7 +399,7 @@ static noinline u64 delta_to_ns_safe(con
return mul_u64_u32_add_u64_shr(delta, tkr->mult, tkr->xtime_nsec, tkr->shift);
}
-static inline u64 timekeeping_cycles_to_ns(const struct tk_read_base *tkr, u64 cycles)
+static __always_inline u64 timekeeping_cycles_to_ns(const struct tk_read_base *tkr, u64 cycles)
{
/* Calculate the delta since the last update_wall_time() */
u64 mask = tkr->mask, delta = (cycles - tkr->cycle_last) & mask;
@@ -1631,7 +1655,19 @@ int timekeeping_notify(struct clocksourc
if (tk->tkr_mono.clock == clock)
return 0;
+
+ /* Disable inlined reads accross the clocksource switch */
+ clocksource_disable_inline_read();
+
stop_machine(change_clocksource, clock, NULL);
+
+ /*
+ * If the clocksource has been selected and supports inlined reads
+ * enable the branch.
+ */
+ if (tk->tkr_mono.clock == clock && clock->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_CAN_INLINE_READ)
+ clocksource_enable_inline_read();
+
tick_clock_notify();
return tk->tkr_mono.clock == clock ? 0 : -1;
}
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2026-02-24 16:35 [patch 00/48] hrtimer,sched: General optimizations and hrtick enablement Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-24 16:35 ` [patch 01/48] sched/eevdf: Fix HRTICK duration Thomas Gleixner
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2026-03-20 15:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-20 15:40 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-02-24 16:35 ` [patch 02/48] sched/fair: Simplify hrtick_update() Thomas Gleixner
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2026-03-04 18:49 ` [patch 20/48] clocksource: Update clocksource::freq_khz on registration Thomas Gleixner
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