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authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2013-11-22 11:44:51 -0800
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2013-11-22 21:08:11 +0100
commit4be77398ac9d948773116b6be4a3c91b3d6ea18c (patch)
tree6560d38d789fa7a665367804dc311aa00cb4368e /kernel
parent050ded1bbaea3331745cf2782315f5bc2582d083 (diff)
downloadlinux-4be77398ac9d948773116b6be4a3c91b3d6ea18c.tar.bz2
time: Fix 1ns/tick drift w/ GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
Since commit 1e75fa8be9f (time: Condense timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec - merged in v3.6), there has been an problem with the error accounting in the timekeeping code, such that when truncating to nanoseconds, we round up to the next nsec, but the balancing adjustment to the ntp_error value was dropped. This causes 1ns per tick drift forward of the clock. In 3.7, this logic was isolated to only GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD architectures (s390, ia64, powerpc). The fix is simply to balance the accounting and to subtract the added nanosecond from ntp_error. This allows the internal long-term clock steering to keep the clock accurate. While this fix removes the regression added in 1e75fa8be9f, the ideal solution is to move away from GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD and use the new VSYSCALL method, which avoids entirely the nanosecond granular rounding, and the resulting short-term clock adjustment oscillation needed to keep long term accurate time. [ jstultz: Many thanks to Martin for his efforts identifying this subtle bug, and providing the fix. ] Originally-from: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> #v3.6+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385149491-20307-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/timekeeping.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 3abf53418b67..87b4f00284c9 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ static inline void old_vsyscall_fixup(struct timekeeper *tk)
tk->xtime_nsec -= remainder;
tk->xtime_nsec += 1ULL << tk->shift;
tk->ntp_error += remainder << tk->ntp_error_shift;
-
+ tk->ntp_error -= (1ULL << tk->shift) << tk->ntp_error_shift;
}
#else
#define old_vsyscall_fixup(tk)