[PATCH] x86-64: vsyscall_gtod_data diet and vgettimeofday() fix

Current vsyscall_gtod_data is large (3 or 4 cache lines dirtied at timer
interrupt). We can shrink it to exactly 64 bytes (1 cache line on AMD64)

Instead of copying a whole struct clocksource, we copy only needed fields.

I deleted an unused field : offset_base

This patch fixes one oddity in vgettimeofday(): It can returns a timeval with
tv_usec = 1000000. Maybe not a bug, but why not doing the right thing ?

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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