Subject: [PATCH v5] posix-timers: add multi_clock_gettime system call

From: Sagi Maimon <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 11:18:55 +0200

Some user space applications need to read some clocks.
Each read requires moving from user space to kernel space.
The syscall overhead causes unpredictable delay between N clocks reads
Removing this delay causes better synchronization between N clocks.

Introduce a new system call multi_clock_gettime, which can be used to measure
the offset between multiple clocks, from variety of types: PHC, virtual PHC
and various system clocks (CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, etc).
The offset includes the total time that the driver needs to read the clock
timestamp.

New system call allows the reading of a list of clocks - up to PTP_MAX_CLOCKS.
Supported clocks IDs: PHC, virtual PHC and various system clocks.
Up to PTP_MAX_SAMPLES times (per clock) in a single system call read.
The system call returns n_clocks timestamps for each measurement:
- clock 0 timestamp
- ...
- clock n timestamp

Signed-off-by: Sagi Maimon <[email-masked]>
---
 Changes since version 4:
 - fix error  : 'struct __ptp_multi_clock_get' declared inside parameter list 
   will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration

 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl |  1 +
 include/linux/syscalls.h               |  3 +-
 include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h      |  4 +-
 include/uapi/linux/multi_clock.h       | 21 +++++++++
 kernel/time/posix-timers.c             | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/multi_clock.h

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
index 8cb8bf68721c..9cdeb0bf49db 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
@@ -378,6 +378,7 @@
 454	common	futex_wake		sys_futex_wake
 455	common	futex_wait		sys_futex_wait
 456	common	futex_requeue		sys_futex_requeue
+457	common	multi_clock_gettime	sys_multi_clock_gettime
 
 #
 # Due to a historical design error, certain syscalls are numbered differently
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index fd9d12de7e92..bde7dec493fd 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ struct landlock_ruleset_attr;
 enum landlock_rule_type;
 struct cachestat_range;
 struct cachestat;
+struct __ptp_multi_clock_get;
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/aio_abi.h>
@@ -1161,7 +1162,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_mmap_pgoff(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
 			unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
 			unsigned long fd, unsigned long pgoff);
 asmlinkage long sys_old_mmap(struct mmap_arg_struct __user *arg);
-
+asmlinkage long sys_multi_clock_gettime(struct __ptp_multi_clock_get __user * ptp_multi_clk_get);
 
 /*
  * Not a real system call, but a placeholder for syscalls which are
diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
index 756b013fb832..beb3e0052d3c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
+++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
@@ -828,9 +828,11 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_futex_wake, sys_futex_wake)
 __SYSCALL(__NR_futex_wait, sys_futex_wait)
 #define __NR_futex_requeue 456
 __SYSCALL(__NR_futex_requeue, sys_futex_requeue)
+#define __NR_multi_clock_gettime 457
+__SYSCALL(__NR_multi_clock_gettime, sys_multi_clock_gettime)
 
 #undef __NR_syscalls
-#define __NR_syscalls 457
+#define __NR_syscalls 458
 
 /*
  * 32 bit systems traditionally used different
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/multi_clock.h b/include/uapi/linux/multi_clock.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5e78dac3a533
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/multi_clock.h
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
+#ifndef _UAPI_MULTI_CLOCK_H
+#define _UAPI_MULTI_CLOCK_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/time_types.h>
+
+#define MULTI_PTP_MAX_CLOCKS 32 /* Max number of clocks */
+#define MULTI_PTP_MAX_SAMPLES 32 /* Max allowed offset measurement samples. */
+
+struct __ptp_multi_clock_get {
+	unsigned int n_clocks; /* Desired number of clocks. */
+	unsigned int n_samples; /* Desired number of measurements per clock. */
+	clockid_t clkid_arr[MULTI_PTP_MAX_CLOCKS]; /* list of clock IDs */
+	/*
+	 * Array of list of n_clocks clocks time samples n_samples times.
+	 */
+	struct  __kernel_timespec ts[MULTI_PTP_MAX_SAMPLES][MULTI_PTP_MAX_CLOCKS];
+};
+
+#endif /* _UAPI_MULTI_CLOCK_H */
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
index b924f0f096fa..1d321dc56a25 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 #include <linux/compat.h>
 #include <linux/nospec.h>
 #include <linux/time_namespace.h>
+#include <linux/multi_clock.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 
 #include "timekeeping.h"
 #include "posix-timers.h"
@@ -1426,6 +1428,63 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(clock_nanosleep_time32, clockid_t, which_clock, int, flags,
 
 #endif
 
+SYSCALL_DEFINE1(multi_clock_gettime, struct __ptp_multi_clock_get __user *, ptp_multi_clk_get)
+{
+	const struct k_clock *kc;
+	struct timespec64 *kernel_tp;
+	struct timespec64 *kernel_tp_base;
+	unsigned int n_clocks; /* Desired number of clocks. */
+	unsigned int n_samples; /* Desired number of measurements per clock. */
+	unsigned int i, j;
+	clockid_t clkid_arr[MULTI_PTP_MAX_CLOCKS]; /* list of clock IDs */
+	int error = 0;
+
+	if (copy_from_user(&n_clocks, &ptp_multi_clk_get->n_clocks, sizeof(n_clocks)))
+		return -EFAULT;
+	if (copy_from_user(&n_samples, &ptp_multi_clk_get->n_samples, sizeof(n_samples)))
+		return -EFAULT;
+	if (n_samples > MULTI_PTP_MAX_SAMPLES)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (n_clocks > MULTI_PTP_MAX_CLOCKS)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (copy_from_user(clkid_arr, &ptp_multi_clk_get->clkid_arr,
+			   sizeof(clockid_t) * n_clocks))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
+	kernel_tp_base = kmalloc_array(n_clocks * n_samples,
+				       sizeof(struct timespec64), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!kernel_tp_base)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	kernel_tp = kernel_tp_base;
+	for (j = 0; j < n_samples; j++) {
+		for (i = 0; i < n_clocks; i++) {
+			kc = clockid_to_kclock(clkid_arr[i]);
+			if (!kc) {
+				error = -EINVAL;
+				goto out;
+			}
+			error = kc->clock_get_timespec(clkid_arr[i], kernel_tp++);
+			if (error)
+				goto out;
+		}
+	}
+
+	kernel_tp = kernel_tp_base;
+	for (j = 0; j < n_samples; j++) {
+		for (i = 0; i < n_clocks; i++) {
+			if (put_timespec64(kernel_tp++, (struct __kernel_timespec __user *)
+					&ptp_multi_clk_get->ts[j][i])) {
+				error = -EFAULT;
+				goto out;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+out:
+	kfree(kernel_tp_base);
+	return error;
+}
+
 static const struct k_clock clock_realtime = {
 	.clock_getres		= posix_get_hrtimer_res,
 	.clock_get_timespec	= posix_get_realtime_timespec,
-- 
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