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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-12-04 21:40:29 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-12-04 21:40:29 -0800
commit4857339d7c01cd81ce8872da2d1f9183b07b1c87 (patch)
tree49d311b8bd623810822106a706f9db886c6ffb07
parent0efcafb0fb7a163999a8821e8a5e7792fca90a2d (diff)
parent6c9bacb41c10ba84ff68f238e234d96f35fb64f7 (diff)
downloadlinux-4857339d7c01cd81ce8872da2d1f9183b07b1c87.tar.gz
Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  time: catch xtime_nsec underflows and fix them
  posix-cpu-timers: fix clock_gettime with CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID
-rw-r--r--kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/timekeeping.c22
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 895337b16a24..4e5288a831de 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 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.
 	 */