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authorJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>2008-08-20 16:37:28 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-21 09:50:23 +0200
commit1aa5dfb751d275ae7117d3b73ac423b4a46f2a73 (patch)
treedde8d56d000c7885c43df0e61f72f4a75d5759fe /kernel/time
parentee974e01e5ef2914036f08c8e41d1a3fa8bfc9d9 (diff)
clocksource: keep track of original clocksource frequency
The clocksource frequency is represented by clocksource->mult/2^(clocksource->shift). Currently, when NTP makes adjustments to the clock frequency, they are made directly to the mult value. This has the drawback that once changed, we cannot know what the orignal mult value was, or how much adjustment has been applied. This property causes problems in calculating proper ntp intervals when switching back and forth between clocksources. This patch separates the current mult value into a mult and mult_orig pair. The mult_orig value stays constant, while the ntp clocksource adjustments are done only to the mult value. This allows for correct ntp interval calculation and additionally lays the groundwork for a new notion of time, what I'm calling the monotonic-raw time, which is introduced in a following patch. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/clocksource.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/jiffies.c1
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index 093d4acf993..9ed2eec9752 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -325,6 +325,9 @@ int clocksource_register(struct clocksource *c)
unsigned long flags;
int ret;
+ /* save mult_orig on registration */
+ c->mult_orig = c->mult;
+
spin_lock_irqsave(&clocksource_lock, flags);
ret = clocksource_enqueue(c);
if (!ret)
diff --git a/kernel/time/jiffies.c b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
index 4c256fdb887..1ca99557e92 100644
--- a/kernel/time/jiffies.c
+++ b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ struct clocksource clocksource_jiffies = {
.read = jiffies_read,
.mask = 0xffffffff, /*32bits*/
.mult = NSEC_PER_JIFFY << JIFFIES_SHIFT, /* details above */
+ .mult_orig = NSEC_PER_JIFFY << JIFFIES_SHIFT,
.shift = JIFFIES_SHIFT,
};