linux/kernel/time
Roman Zippel 5cd1c9c5cf timekeeping: fix rounding problem during clock update
Due to a rounding problem during a clock update it's possible for readers
to observe the clock jumping back by 1nsec.  The following simplified
example demonstrates the problem:

cycle	xtime
0	0
1000	999999.6
2000	1999999.2
3000	2999998.8
...

1500 =	1499999.4
=	0.0 + 1499999.4
=	999999.6 + 499999.8

When reading the clock only the full nanosecond part is used, while
timekeeping internally keeps nanosecond fractions.  If the clock is now
updated at cycle 1500 here, a nanosecond is missing due to the truncation.

The simple fix is to round up the xtime value during the update, this also
changes the distance to the reference time, but the adjustment will
automatically take care that it stays under control.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 17:33:13 +02:00
..
clockevents.c time: fix typo in comments 2008-02-08 09:22:29 -08:00
clocksource.c Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-07-23 18:37:44 -07:00
jiffies.c [PATCH] fix jiffies clocksource inittime 2007-04-04 21:12:47 -07:00
Kconfig clockevents: Allow build w/o run-tine usage for migration purposes 2007-10-12 23:04:05 +02:00
Makefile clockevents: Allow build w/o run-tine usage for migration purposes 2007-10-12 23:04:05 +02:00
ntp.c ntp: let update_persistent_clock() sleep 2008-09-24 17:33:12 +02:00
tick-broadcast.c Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096 2008-07-16 00:29:07 +02:00
tick-common.c cpumask: change cpumask_of_cpu_ptr to use new cpumask_of_cpu 2008-07-26 16:40:33 +02:00
tick-internal.h timer: clean up tick-broadcast.c 2008-01-30 13:30:01 +01:00
tick-oneshot.c [S390] genirq/clockevents: move irq affinity prototypes/inlines to interrupt.h 2008-04-17 07:47:05 +02:00
tick-sched.c sched_clock: fix NOHZ interaction 2008-09-05 18:14:08 +02:00
timekeeping.c timekeeping: fix rounding problem during clock update 2008-09-24 17:33:13 +02:00
timer_list.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
timer_stats.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00