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Donenfeld\" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,\n Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,\n linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org,\n Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,\n linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,\n Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,\n Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,\n loongarch@lists.linux.dev,\n Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,\n linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org,\n Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>,\n Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>,\n linux-openrisc@vger.kernel.org,\n Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,\n linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,\n Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,\n linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,\n Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,\n linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,\n Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,\n linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,\n \"David S. Miller\" <davem@davemloft.net>,\n sparclinux@vger.kernel.org", "Subject": "[patch 19/38] kcsan: Replace get_cycles() usage", "References": "<20260410120044.031381086@kernel.org>", "X-Mailing-List": "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org", "List-Id": "<linuxppc-dev.lists.ozlabs.org>", "List-Help": "<mailto:linuxppc-dev+help@lists.ozlabs.org>", "List-Owner": "<mailto:linuxppc-dev+owner@lists.ozlabs.org>", "List-Post": "<mailto:linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>", "List-Archive": "<https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/>,\n <https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/>", "List-Subscribe": "<mailto:linuxppc-dev+subscribe@lists.ozlabs.org>,\n <mailto:linuxppc-dev+subscribe-digest@lists.ozlabs.org>,\n <mailto:linuxppc-dev+subscribe-nomail@lists.ozlabs.org>", "List-Unsubscribe": "<mailto:linuxppc-dev+unsubscribe@lists.ozlabs.org>", "Precedence": "list", "MIME-Version": "1.0", "Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=UTF-8", "X-Spam-Status": "No, score=-0.2 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,\n\tDKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS\n\tautolearn=disabled version=4.0.1 OzLabs 8", "X-Spam-Checker-Version": "SpamAssassin 4.0.1 (2024-03-25) on lists.ozlabs.org" }, "content": "KCSAN uses get_cycles() for two purposes:\n\n 1) Seeding the random state with get_cycles() is a historical leftover.\n\n 2) The microbenchmark uses get_cycles(), which provides an unit less\n counter value and is not guaranteed to be functional on all\n systems/platforms.\n\nUse random_get_entropy() for seeding the random state and ktime_get() which\nis universaly functional and provides at least a comprehensible unit.\n\nThis is part of a larger effort to remove get_cycles() usage from\nnon-architecture code.\n\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>\nCc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>\nCc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>\nCc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com\n---\n kernel/kcsan/core.c | 2 +-\n kernel/kcsan/debugfs.c | 8 ++++----\n 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)", "diff": "--- a/kernel/kcsan/core.c\n+++ b/kernel/kcsan/core.c\n@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ void __init kcsan_init(void)\n \tBUG_ON(!in_task());\n \n \tfor_each_possible_cpu(cpu)\n-\t\tper_cpu(kcsan_rand_state, cpu) = (u32)get_cycles();\n+\t\tper_cpu(kcsan_rand_state, cpu) = (u32)random_get_entropy();\n \n \t/*\n \t * We are in the init task, and no other tasks should be running;\n--- a/kernel/kcsan/debugfs.c\n+++ b/kernel/kcsan/debugfs.c\n@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static noinline void microbenchmark(unsi\n {\n \tconst struct kcsan_ctx ctx_save = current->kcsan_ctx;\n \tconst bool was_enabled = READ_ONCE(kcsan_enabled);\n-\tu64 cycles;\n+\tktime_t nsecs;\n \n \t/* We may have been called from an atomic region; reset context. */\n \tmemset(¤t->kcsan_ctx, 0, sizeof(current->kcsan_ctx));\n@@ -70,16 +70,16 @@ static noinline void microbenchmark(unsi\n \n \tpr_info(\"%s begin | iters: %lu\\n\", __func__, iters);\n \n-\tcycles = get_cycles();\n+\tnsecs = ktime_get();\n \twhile (iters--) {\n \t\tunsigned long addr = iters & ((PAGE_SIZE << 8) - 1);\n \t\tint type = !(iters & 0x7f) ? KCSAN_ACCESS_ATOMIC :\n \t\t\t\t(!(iters & 0xf) ? KCSAN_ACCESS_WRITE : 0);\n \t\t__kcsan_check_access((void *)addr, sizeof(long), type);\n \t}\n-\tcycles = get_cycles() - cycles;\n+\tnsecs = ktime_get() - nsecs;\n \n-\tpr_info(\"%s end | cycles: %llu\\n\", __func__, cycles);\n+\tpr_info(\"%s end | nsecs: %llu\\n\", __func__, nsecs);\n \n \tWRITE_ONCE(kcsan_enabled, was_enabled);\n \t/* restore context */\n", "prefixes": [ "19/38" ] }