vdso/vsyscall: Avoid slow division loop in auxiliary clock update
The call to __iter_div_u64_rem() in vdso_time_update_aux() is a wrapper around subtraction. It cannot be used to divide large numbers, as that introduces long, computationally expensive delays. A regular u64 division is also not possible in the timekeeper update path as it can be too slow. Instead of splitting the ktime_t offset into into second and subsecond components during the timekeeper update fast-path, do it together with the adjustment of tk->offs_aux in the slow-path. Equivalent to the handling of offs_boot and monotonic_to_boot. Reuse the storage of monotonic_to_boot for the new field, as it is not used by auxiliary timekeepers. Fixes: 380b84e1 ("vdso/vsyscall: Update auxiliary clock data in the datapage") Reported-by:Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250825-vdso-auxclock-division-v1-1-a1d32a16a313@linutronix.de Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aKwsNNWsHJg8IKzj@localhost/
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