Use clock_gettime to implement time.

Change the default implementation of time to call clock_gettime,
to align with new Linux ports that are expected to only implement
__NR_clock_gettime.  Arch-specific implementation that either call
the time vDSO or route to gettimeofday vDSO are not removed.

Also for Linux, CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE is used instead of generic
CLOCK_REALTIME clockid.  This takes less CPU time and its behavior
better matches what the current glibc does.

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>

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 50 deletions

diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/time.c b/sysdeps/generic/time-clockid.h
index f461733678..13db6e6b5b 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/time.c
+++ b/sysdeps/generic/time-clockid.h
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* System specific time definitions.  Generic Version.
+   Copyright 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 
    The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -15,27 +16,5 @@
    License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
    <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
-#include <stddef.h>
-#include <time.h>
-
-#include <sysdep.h>
-
-#ifdef __NR_time
-
-time_t
-time (time_t *t)
-{
-  INTERNAL_SYSCALL_DECL (err);
-  time_t res = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (time, err, 1, NULL);
-  /* There cannot be any error.  */
-  if (t != NULL)
-    *t = res;
-  return res;
-}
-libc_hidden_def (time)
-
-#else
-
-# include <sysdeps/posix/time.c>
-
-#endif
+/* Timer used on clock_gettime for time implementation.  */
+#define TIME_CLOCK_GETTIME_CLOCKID CLOCK_REALTIME
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/time.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/time.c
index c35b80fad1..e957b81751 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/time.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/time.c
@@ -78,6 +78,6 @@ libc_hidden_def (time)
 
 #else
 
-#include <sysdeps/posix/time.c>
+#include <time/time.c>
 
 #endif /* !SHARED */
diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/time.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/time-clockid.h
index 0ab31bd7b6..1bdaa18094 100644
--- a/sysdeps/posix/time.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/time-clockid.h
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1991-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* System specific time definitions.  Generic Version.
+   Copyright 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 
    The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -15,26 +16,7 @@
    License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
    <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
-#include <stddef.h>		/* For NULL.  */
-#include <time.h>
-#include <sys/time.h>
-
-
-/* Return the current time as a `time_t' and also put it in *T if T is
-   not NULL.  Time is represented as seconds from Jan 1 00:00:00 1970.  */
-time_t
-time (time_t *t)
-{
-  struct timeval tv;
-  time_t result;
-
-  if (__gettimeofday (&tv, (struct timezone *) NULL))
-    result = (time_t) -1;
-  else
-    result = (time_t) tv.tv_sec;
-
-  if (t != NULL)
-    *t = result;
-  return result;
-}
-libc_hidden_def (time)
+/* Timer used on clock_gettime for time implementation.  For Linux
+   it uses the coarse version which returns the time at the last tick
+   and mimic what time as syscall should return.  */
+#define TIME_CLOCK_GETTIME_CLOCKID CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE