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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: [git pull] timer fixes
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:52:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081204205243.GA6565@elte.hu> (raw)

Linus,

Please pull the latest timers-fixes-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git timers-fixes-for-linus

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
John Stultz (1):
      time: catch xtime_nsec underflows and fix them

Petr Tesarik (1):
      posix-cpu-timers: fix clock_gettime with CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID


 kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c |    2 +-
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 895337b..4e5288a 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static int cpu_clock_sample_group(const clockid_t which_clock,
 	struct task_cputime cputime;
 
 	thread_group_cputime(p, &cputime);
-	switch (which_clock) {
+	switch (CPUCLOCK_WHICH(which_clock)) {
 	default:
 		return -EINVAL;
 	case CPUCLOCK_PROF:
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index e7acfb4..fa05e88 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.
 	 */

             reply	other threads:[~2008-12-04 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-04 20:52 Ingo Molnar [this message]
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2024-04-14  8:42 [GIT PULL] timer fixes Ingo Molnar
2024-04-14 18:48 ` pr-tracker-bot
2024-04-07  8:03 Ingo Molnar
2024-04-07 16:44 ` pr-tracker-bot
2023-01-12 14:44 Ingo Molnar
2023-01-12 23:01 ` pr-tracker-bot
2022-08-13 10:25 Ingo Molnar
2022-08-13 16:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-13 20:27   ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-14  8:57     ` Ingo Molnar
2022-08-14 12:41     ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-14 17:24       ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-08-14 17:42         ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-13 21:48 ` pr-tracker-bot
2020-12-27  9:26 Ingo Molnar
2020-12-27 17:27 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-12-17 11:55 Ingo Molnar
2019-12-17 19:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-17 19:30   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-12-17 20:16     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-17 20:35       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-12-17 20:43         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-17 20:54           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-12-17 19:20 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-05-16 16:09 Ingo Molnar
2019-05-16 18:20 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-04-20  7:45 Ingo Molnar
2019-04-20 19:25 ` pr-tracker-bot
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2016-01-14 10:12 Ingo Molnar
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2015-09-17  8:13 Ingo Molnar
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2015-03-01 17:06 Ingo Molnar
2013-12-17 13:52 Ingo Molnar
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2013-08-19  9:41 Ingo Molnar
2013-02-26 11:32 Ingo Molnar
2012-09-21 19:12 Ingo Molnar
2012-08-03 16:47 Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 19:25 Ingo Molnar
2011-12-05 19:00 Ingo Molnar
2011-06-19  8:51 Ingo Molnar
2011-06-13  9:55 Ingo Molnar
2011-06-06 19:10 [GIT pull] " Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-20 17:52 Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-19 16:03 [GIT PULL] " Ingo Molnar
2011-04-16 10:09 Ingo Molnar
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2009-08-25 18:04 Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 19:03 Ingo Molnar
2009-04-09 15:43 Ingo Molnar
2009-01-30 23:07 [git pull] " Ingo Molnar
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2009-01-06 16:18 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-11 18:47 Ingo Molnar
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