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-rw-r--r--kernel/time/timekeeping.c22
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 521960ba97b..6e22c16c98b 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -477,6 +477,28 @@ 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 */
xtime.tv_nsec = (s64)clock->xtime_nsec >> clock->shift;
clock->xtime_nsec -= (s64)xtime.tv_nsec << clock->shift;