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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-12 13:48:57 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-12 13:48:57 +0100 |
commit | 45ab6b0c76d0e4cce5bd608ccf97b0f6b20f18df (patch) | |
tree | 4d51c73533c386aee16fde1e74b5e3bc22eedc53 /kernel/time | |
parent | 81444a799550214f549caf579cf65a0ca55e70b7 (diff) | |
parent | d65bd5ecb2bd166cea4952a59b7e16cc3ad6ef6c (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'sched/core' into cpus4096
Conflicts:
include/linux/ftrace.h
kernel/sched.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
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diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c index e7acfb482a68..fa05e88aa76f 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c @@ -518,6 +518,28 @@ void update_wall_time(void) /* correct the clock when NTP error is too big */ clocksource_adjust(offset); + /* + * Since in the loop above, we accumulate any amount of time + * in xtime_nsec over a second into xtime.tv_sec, its possible for + * xtime_nsec to be fairly small after the loop. Further, if we're + * slightly speeding the clocksource up in clocksource_adjust(), + * its possible the required corrective factor to xtime_nsec could + * cause it to underflow. + * + * Now, we cannot simply roll the accumulated second back, since + * the NTP subsystem has been notified via second_overflow. So + * instead we push xtime_nsec forward by the amount we underflowed, + * and add that amount into the error. + * + * We'll correct this error next time through this function, when + * xtime_nsec is not as small. + */ + if (unlikely((s64)clock->xtime_nsec < 0)) { + s64 neg = -(s64)clock->xtime_nsec; + clock->xtime_nsec = 0; + clock->error += neg << (NTP_SCALE_SHIFT - clock->shift); + } + /* store full nanoseconds into xtime after rounding it up and * add the remainder to the error difference. */ |