Use clock_gettime to implement gettimeofday.

Consolidate generic gettimeofday implementation to use clock_gettime.
Linux ports that still provide gettimeofday through vDSO are not
changed.

Remove sysdeps/unix/clock_gettime.c, which implemented clock_gettime
using gettimeofday; new OS ports must provide a real implementation of
clock_gettime.

Rename sysdeps/mach/gettimeofday.c to sysdeps/mach/clock_gettime.c and
convert into an implementation of clock_gettime.  It only supports
CLOCK_REALTIME; Mach does not appear to have any support for monotonic
clocks.  It uses __host_get_time, which provides at best microsecond
resolution.  Hurd is currently using sysdeps/posix/clock_getres.c for
clock_getres; its output for CLOCK_REALTIME is based on
sysconf (_SC_CLK_TCK), and I do not know whether that gives the
correct result.

Unlike settimeofday, there are no known uses of gettimeofday's
vestigial "get time zone" feature that are not bugs.  (The per-process
timezone support in localtime and friends is unrelated, and the
programs that set the kernel's offset between the hardware clock and
UTC do not need to read it back.)  Therefore, this feature is dummied
out.  Henceforth, if gettimeofday's "struct timezone" argument is not
NULL, it will write zeroes to both fields.  Any program that is
actually looking at this data will thus think it is running in UTC,
which is probably more correct than whatever it was doing before.

[__]gettimeofday no longer has any internal callers, so we can now
remove its internal prototype and PLT bypass aliases.  The
__gettimeofday@GLIBC_2.0 export remains, in case it is used by any
third-party code.

It also allows to simplify the arch-specific implementation on x86 and
powerpc to remove the hack to disable the internal route to non iFUNC
variant for internal symbol.

This patch also fixes a missing optimization on aarch64, powerpc, and
x86 where the code used on static build do not use the vDSO.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, powerpc64le-linux-gnu,
powerpc64-linux-gnu, powerpc-linux-gnu, and aarch64-linux-gnu.

Co-authored-by: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7e9d36e180..75b380c0f8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,19 @@ Major new features:
   18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
   Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
 
+* The gettimeofday function will no longer report information about a
+  system-wide time zone, expect for aarch64, powerpc, and x86 on Linux
+  which still uses the vDSO symbol (when available).
+
+  This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for many years, as it cannot
+  handle the full complexity of the world's timezones, but hitherto we have
+  supported it on a best-effort basis.  Changes required to support 64-bit
+  time_t on 32-bit architectures have made this no longer practical.
+
+  As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
+  will always receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
+  tz_dsttime fields are zero.
+
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding