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authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2009-08-14 15:47:31 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-08-15 10:55:46 +0200
commitd4f587c67fc39e0030ddd718675e252e208da4d7 (patch)
tree2222681c57966cc6b8404afdff3ab1a09ac7ea69 /arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c
parent75c5158f70c065b9704b924503d96e8297838f79 (diff)
downloadlinux-d4f587c67fc39e0030ddd718675e252e208da4d7.tar.gz
timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock()
The persistent clock of some architectures (e.g. s390) have a
better granularity than seconds. To reduce the delta between the
host clock and the guest clock in a virtualized system change the 
read_persistent_clock function to return a struct timespec.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134811.013873340@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c
index 5d465b207e72..bf67dcb4a44c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static int set_rtc_mmss(unsigned long nowtime)
 }
 
 /* not static: needed by APM */
-unsigned long read_persistent_clock(void)
+void read_persistent_clock(struct timespec *ts)
 {
 	unsigned long retval, flags;
 
@@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ unsigned long read_persistent_clock(void)
 	retval = get_wallclock();
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc_lock, flags);
 
-	return retval;
+	ts->tv_sec = retval;
+	ts->tv_nsec = 0;
 }
 
 int update_persistent_clock(struct timespec now)