Cache xtime every call to update_wall_time

This avoids xtime lag seen with dynticks, because while 'xtime' itself
is still not updated often, we keep a 'xtime_cache' variable around that
contains the approximate real-time that _is_ updated each time we do a
'update_wall_time()', and is thus never off by more than one tick.

IOW, this restores the original semantics for 'xtime' users, as long as
you use the proper abstraction functions (ie 'current_kernel_time()' or
'get_seconds()' depending on whether you want a timespec or just the
seconds field).

[ Updated Patch.  As penance for my sins I've also yanked another #ifdef
  that was added to avoid the xtime lag w/ hrtimers.  ]

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
index a7bb05e6cb6..c21ca6bfaa6 100644
--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -141,11 +141,7 @@ static void hrtimer_get_softirq_time(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base)
 
 	do {
 		seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock);
-#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
-		getnstimeofday(&xts);
-#else
 		xts = current_kernel_time();
-#endif
 		tom = wall_to_monotonic;
 	} while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));