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| author | Kasper Pedersen <kkp2010@kasperkp.dk> | 2010-10-20 15:55:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-06-23 15:24:09 -0700 |
| commit | a6d553ac64a6b3dc267eebccca446fd32d2e5e73 (patch) | |
| tree | 3781fb9552f6deaae61cd762fff4c53b6ccc6afa /kernel | |
| parent | 652c98bac315a2253628885f05cfd5f30b553ae5 (diff) | |
time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources
commit a386b5af8edda1c742ce9f77891e112eefffc005 upstream.
When the clocksource is not a multiple of HZ, the clock will be off. For
acpi_pm, HZ=1000 the error is 127.111 ppm:
The rounding of cycle_interval ends up generating a false error term in
ntp_error accumulation since xtime_interval is not exactly 1/HZ. So, we
subtract out the error caused by the rounding.
This has been visible since 2.6.32-rc2
commit a092ff0f90cae22b2ac8028ecd2c6f6c1a9e4601
time: Implement logarithmic time accumulation
That commit raised NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ and exposed the rounding error.
testing tool: http://n1.taur.dk/permanent/testpmt.c
Also tested with ntpd and a frequency counter.
Signed-off-by: Kasper Pedersen <kkp2010@kasperkp.dk>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Will Tisdale <willtisdale@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c index f5e362f12fe..1d1206a8f87 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ struct timekeeper { cycle_t cycle_interval; /* Number of clock shifted nano seconds in one NTP interval. */ u64 xtime_interval; + /* shifted nano seconds left over when rounding cycle_interval */ + s64 xtime_remainder; /* Raw nano seconds accumulated per NTP interval. */ u32 raw_interval; @@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ struct timekeeper timekeeper; static void timekeeper_setup_internals(struct clocksource *clock) { cycle_t interval; - u64 tmp; + u64 tmp, ntpinterval; timekeeper.clock = clock; clock->cycle_last = clock->read(clock); @@ -70,6 +72,7 @@ static void timekeeper_setup_internals(struct clocksource *clock) /* Do the ns -> cycle conversion first, using original mult */ tmp = NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH; tmp <<= clock->shift; + ntpinterval = tmp; tmp += clock->mult/2; do_div(tmp, clock->mult); if (tmp == 0) @@ -80,6 +83,7 @@ static void timekeeper_setup_internals(struct clocksource *clock) /* Go back from cycles -> shifted ns */ timekeeper.xtime_interval = (u64) interval * clock->mult; + timekeeper.xtime_remainder = ntpinterval - timekeeper.xtime_interval; timekeeper.raw_interval = ((u64) interval * clock->mult) >> clock->shift; @@ -788,7 +792,8 @@ void update_wall_time(void) /* accumulate error between NTP and clock interval */ timekeeper.ntp_error += tick_length; - timekeeper.ntp_error -= timekeeper.xtime_interval << + timekeeper.ntp_error -= + (timekeeper.xtime_interval + timekeeper.xtime_remainder) << timekeeper.ntp_error_shift; } |