The ADJ_SETOFFSET bit added in commit 094aa188 ("ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET
mode bit") also introduced a way for any user to change the system time.
Sneaky or buggy calls to adjtimex() could set
ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ | ADJ_SETOFFSET
which would result in a successful call to timekeeping_inject_offset().
This patch fixes the issue by adding the capability check.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The ADJ_SETOFFSET code redundantly checks the range of the nanoseconds
field of the time value. This field is checked again in the subsequent
call to timekeeping_inject_offset(). Also, as is, the check will not
detect whether the number of microseconds is out of range.
Let timekeeping_inject_offset() do the error checking.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <20110218090724.GA2924@riccoc20.at.omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch adds a new mode bit into the timex structure. When set, the bit
instructs the kernel to add the given time value to the current time.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134320.688829863@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
All callers of do_timer() are converted to xtime_update(). The only
users of xtime_lock are in kernel/time/. Make both local to
kernel/time/ and remove them from the global header files.
[ tglx: Reuse tick-internal.h instead of creating another local header
file. Massaged changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This commit adds hardpps() implementation based upon the original one from
the NTPv4 reference kernel code from David Mills. However, it is highly
optimized towards very fast syncronization and maximum stickness to PPS
signal. The typical error is less then a microsecond.
To make it sync faster I had to throw away exponential phase filter so
that the full phase offset is corrected immediately. Then I also had to
throw away median phase filter because it gives a bigger error itself if
used without exponential filter.
Maybe we will find an appropriate filtering scheme in the future but it's
not necessary if the signal quality is ok.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Clamp update interval to reduce PLL gain with low sampling rate (e.g.
intermittent network connection) to avoid instability.
The clamp roughly corresponds to the loop time constant, it's 8 * poll
interval for SHIFT_PLL 2 and 32 * poll interval for SHIFT_PLL 4. This
gives good results without affecting the gain in normal conditions where
ntpd skips only up to seven consecutive samples.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1283870626-9472-1-git-send-email-mlichvar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Now that no arches are accessing time_adjust directly,
make it static.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1268968769-19209-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
ntp.c doesn't need to access timekeeping internals directly, so change
xtime references to use the get_seconds() timekeeping interface.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: richard@rsk.demon.co.uk
LKML-Reference: <1264738844-21935-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Make time_esterror and time_maxerror static as no one uses them
outside of ntp.c
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: richard@rsk.demon.co.uk
LKML-Reference: <1264719761.3437.47.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Move the adjustment of xtime, wall_to_monotonic and the update of the
vsyscall variables to the timekeeping code.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134807.609730216@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The time_status conditional was accidentally placed right after we clear
the checked time_status bits, which causes us to take the conditional
every time through. This fixes it by moving the conditional to before we
clear the time_status bits.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
The 'time_adj' local variable is named in a very confusing
way because it almost shadows the 'time_adjust' global
variable - which is used in this same function.
Rename it to 'delta' - to make them stand apart more clearly.
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2545 114 144 2803 af3 ntp.o.before
2545 114 144 2803 af3 ntp.o.after
md5:
1bf0b3be564512279ba7cee299d1d2be ntp.o.before.asm
1bf0b3be564512279ba7cee299d1d2be ntp.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: micro-optimization
Convert the (internal) ntp_tick_adj value we store from unscaled
units to scaled units. This is a constant that we never modify,
so scaling it up once during bootup is enough - we dont have to
do it for every adjustment step.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Further simplify do_adjtimex():
- introduce the ntp_start_leap_timer() helper function
- eliminate the goto adj_done complication
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
do_adjtimex() is currently a monster function with a maze of
branches. Refactor the txc->modes setting aspects of it into
two new helper functions:
process_adj_status()
process_adjtimex_modes()
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2512 114 136 2762 aca ntp.o.before
2512 114 136 2762 aca ntp.o.after
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change (fix) the way the NTP PLL seconds offset is initialized/tracked
Fix a bug and do a micro-optimization:
When PLL is enabled we do not reset time_reftime. If the PLL
was off for a long time (for example after bootup), this is
arguably the wrong thing to do.
We already had a hack for the common boot-time case in
ntp_update_offset(), in form of:
if (unlikely(time_status & STA_FREQHOLD || time_reftime == 0))
secs = 0;
But the update delta should be reset later on too - not just when
the PLL is enabled for the first time after bootup.
So do it on !STA_PLL -> STA_PLL transitions.
This changes behavior, as previously if ntpd was disabled for
a long time and we restarted it, we'd run from that last update,
with a very large delta.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
The time_reftime update in ntp_update_offset() to xtime.tv_sec
is a convoluted way of saying that we want to freeze the frequency
and want the 'secs' delta to be 0. Also make this branch unlikely.
This shaves off 8 bytes from the code size:
text data bss dec hex filename
2504 114 136 2754 ac2 ntp.o.before
2496 114 136 2746 aba ntp.o.after
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Change ntp_update_offset_fll() to delta logic instead of
absolute value logic. This eliminates 'freq_adj' from the
function.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Change ntp_update_frequency() from a hard to follow code
flow that uses global variables as temporaries, to a clean
input+output flow.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
There's an ugly u64 typecase in the MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED definition,
this can be eliminated by making the MAX_TICKADJ constant's type
64-bit (signed).
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2504 114 136 2754 ac2 ntp.o.before
2504 114 136 2754 ac2 ntp.o.after
md5:
41f3009debc9b397d7394dd77d912f0a ntp.o.before.asm
41f3009debc9b397d7394dd77d912f0a ntp.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Instead of a hierarchy of conditions, transform them to clean
gradual conditions and return's.
This makes the flow easier to read and makes the purpose of
the function easier to understand.
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.before
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.after
md5:
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.before.asm
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Make this file a bit more readable by applying a consistent coding style.
No code changed:
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.before
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.after
md5:
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.before.asm
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since the GENERIC_TIME changes landed, the adjtimex behavior changed
for struct timex.tick and .freq changed. When the tick or freq value
is set, we adjust the tick_length_base in ntp_update_frequency().
However, this new value doesn't get applied to tick_length until the
next second (via second_overflow).
This means some applications that do quick time tweaking do not see the
requested change made as quickly as expected.
I've run a few tests with this change, and ntpd still functions fine.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, move all hrtimer processing into hardirq context
This is an attempt at removing some of the hrtimer complexity by
reducing the number of callback modes to 1.
This means that all hrtimer callback functions will be ran from HARD-irq
context.
I went through all the 30 odd hrtimer callback functions in the kernel
and saw only one that I'm not quite sure of, which is the one in
net/can/bcm.c - hence I'm CC-ing the folks responsible for that code.
Furthermore, the hrtimer core now calls callbacks directly with IRQs
disabled in case you try to enqueue an expired timer. If this timer is a
periodic timer (which should use hrtimer_forward() to advance its time)
then it might be possible to end up in an inf. recursive loop due to the
fact that hrtimer_forward() doesn't round up to the next timer
granularity, and therefore keeps on calling the callback - obviously
this needs a fix.
Aside from that, this seems to compile and actually boot on my dual core
test box - although I'm sure there are some bugs in, me not hitting any
makes me certain :-)
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change PPM_SCALE_INV_SHIFT so that it doesn't throw away any input bits
(19 is the amount of the factor 2 in PPM_SCALE), the output frequency
can then be calculated back to its input value, as the inverse divide
produce a slightly larger value, which is then correctly rounded by the
final shift.
Reported-by: Martin Ziegler <ziegler@uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This is a change that makes the 11-minute RTC update be run in the process
context. This is so that update_persistent_clock() can sleep, which may
be required for certain types of RTC hardware -- most notably I2C devices.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We have a bug in the calculation of the next jiffie to trigger the RTC
synchronisation. The aim here is to run sync_cmos_clock() as close as
possible to the middle of a second. Which means we want this function to
be called less than or equal to half a jiffie away from when now.tv_nsec
equals 5e8 (500000000).
If this is not the case for a given call to the function, for this purpose
instead of updating the RTC we calculate the offset in nanoseconds to the
next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be equal 5e8. The calculated
offset is then converted to jiffies as these are the unit used by the
timer.
Hovewer timespec_to_jiffies() used here uses a ceil()-type rounding mode,
where the resulting value is rounded up. As a result the range of
now.tv_nsec when the timer will trigger is from 5e8 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC
rather than the desired 5e8 - TICK_NSEC / 2 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2.
As a result if for example sync_cmos_clock() happens to be called at the
time when now.tv_nsec is between 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2 and 5e8 to 5e8 +
TICK_NSEC, it will simply be rescheduled HZ jiffies later, falling in the
same range of now.tv_nsec again. Similarly for cases offsetted by an
integer multiple of TICK_NSEC.
This change addresses the problem by subtracting TICK_NSEC / 2 from the
nanosecond offset to the next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be
equal 5e8, effectively shifting the following rounding in
timespec_to_jiffies() so that it produces a rounded-to-nearest result.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In order to be able to do range hrtimers we need to use accessor functions
to the "expire" member of the hrtimer struct.
This patch converts kernel/* to these accessors.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Thanks to the review by Michael Kerrisk a bug in the recent
ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ option was discovered, where the ntp time_offset was
inadvertently set by it. This fixes this by making the adjtime code
more separate from the ntp_adjtime code (both of which really want to
be separate syscalls).
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove the leap second handling from second_overflow(), which doesn't have to
check for it every second anymore. With CONFIG_NO_HZ this also makes sure the
leap second is handled close to the full second. Additionally this makes it
possible to abort a leap second properly by resetting the STA_INS/STA_DEL
status bits.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
current_tick_length used to do a little more, but now it just returns
tick_length, which we can also access directly at the few places, where it's
needed.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT is used for more than just the tick length, the name
isn't quite approriate anymore, so this renames it to NTP_SCALE_SHIFT.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds support for setting the TAI value (International Atomic Time). The
value is reported back to userspace via timex (as we don't have a
ntp_gettime() syscall).
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
time_offset is already a 64bit value but its resolution barely used, so this
makes better use of it by replacing SHIFT_UPDATE with TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT.
Side note: the SHIFT_HZ in SHIFT_UPDATE was incorrect for CONFIG_NO_HZ and the
primary reason for changing time_offset to 64bit to avoid the overflow.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This changes time_freq to a 64bit value and makes it static (the only outside
user had no real need to modify it). Intermediate values were already 64bit,
so the change isn't that big, but it saves a little in shifts by replacing
SHIFT_NSEC with TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT. PPM_SCALE is then used to convert between
user space and kernel space representation.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds a few more things from the ntp nanokernel related to user space.
It's now possible to select the resolution used of some values via STA_NANO
and the kernel reports in which mode it works (pll/fll).
If some values for adjtimex() are outside the acceptable range, they are now
simply normalized instead of letting the syscall fail. I removed
MOD_CLKA/MOD_CLKB as the mapping didn't really makes any sense, the kernel
doesn't support setting the clock.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is mostly a style cleanup of ntp.c and extracts part of do_adjtimex as
ntp_update_offset(). Otherwise the functionality is still the same as before.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
x86 is the only arch right now, which provides an optimized for
div_long_long_rem and it has the downside that one has to be very careful that
the divide doesn't overflow.
The API is a little akward, as the arguments for the unsigned divide are
signed. The signed version also doesn't handle a negative divisor and
produces worse code on 64bit archs.
There is little incentive to keep this API alive, so this converts the few
users to the new API.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This converts a few users of do_div to div_[su]64 and this demonstrates nicely
how it can reduce some expressions to one-liners.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The first version of the ntp_interval/tick_length inconsistent usage patch was
recently merged as bbe4d18ac2http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405
While the fix did greatly improve the situation, it was correctly pointed out
by Roman that it does have a small bug: If the users change clocksources after
the system has been running and NTP has made corrections, the correctoins made
against the old clocksource will be applied against the new clocksource,
causing error.
The second attempt, which corrects the issue in the NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH
definition has also made it up-stream as commit
e13a2e61ddhttp://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e13a2e61dd5152f5499d2003470acf9c838eab84
Roman has correctly pointed out that CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST is calculated
based on the PIT's frequency, and isn't really relevant to non-PIT
driven clocksources (that is, clocksources other then jiffies and pit).
This patch reverts both of those changes, and simply removes
CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST.
This does remove the granularity error correction for users of PIT and Jiffies
clocksource users, but the granularity error but for the majority of users, it
should be within the 500ppm range NTP can accommodate for.
For systems that have granularity errors greater then 500ppm, the
"ntp_tick_adj=" boot option can be used to compensate.
[johnstul@us.ibm.com: provided changelog]
[mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com: maek ntp_tick_adj static]
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The kernel NTP code shouldn't hand 64-bit *signed* values to do_div(). Make it
instead hand 64-bit unsigned values. This gets rid of a couple of warnings.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
clocksource initialization and error accumulation. This corrects a 280ppm
drift seen on some systems using acpi_pm, and affects other clocksources as
well (likely to a lesser degree).
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Michael Kerrisk reported that a long standing bug in the adjtimex()
system call causes glibc's adjtime(3) function to deliver the wrong
results if 'delta' is NULL.
add the ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ API detail, which will be used by glibc
to fix this API compatibility bug.
Also see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761
[ mingo@elte.hu: added patch description and made it backwards compatible ]
NOTE: the new flag is defined 0xa001 so that it returns -EINVAL on
older kernels - this way glibc can use it safely. Suggested by Ulrich
Drepper.
Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fix a typo in ntp.c that has caused updating of the persistent (RTC)
clock when synced to NTP to behave erratically.
When debugging a freeze that arises on my AMD64 machines when I
run the ntpd service, I added a number of printk's to monitor the
sync_cmos_clock procedure. I discovered that it was not syncing to
cmos RTC every 11 minutes as documented, but instead would keep trying
every second for hours at a time. The reason turned out to be a typo
in sync_cmos_clock, where it attempts to ensure that
update_persistent_clock is called very close to 500 msec. after a 1
second boundary (required by the PC RTC's spec). That typo referred to
"xtime" in one spot, rather than "now", which is derived from "xtime"
but not equal to it. This makes the test erratic, creating a
"coin-flip" that decides when update_persistent_clock is called - when
it is called, which is rarely, it may be at any time during the one
second period, rather than close to 500 msec, so the value written is
needlessly incorrect, too.
Signed-off-by: David P. Reed
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Richard Cochran