[tip:timers/core] time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources

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Commit-ID:  a386b5af8edda1c742ce9f77891e112eefffc005
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a386b5af8edda1c742ce9f77891e112eefffc005
Author:     Kasper Pedersen <kkp2010@xxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:55:15 -0700
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:30:05 +0200

time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources

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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 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 49010d8..5bb86da 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;
 
@@ -719,7 +723,8 @@ static cycle_t logarithmic_accumulation(cycle_t offset, int shift)
 
 	/* Accumulate error between NTP and clock interval */
 	timekeeper.ntp_error += tick_length << shift;
-	timekeeper.ntp_error -= timekeeper.xtime_interval <<
+	timekeeper.ntp_error -=
+	    (timekeeper.xtime_interval + timekeeper.xtime_remainder) <<
 				(timekeeper.ntp_error_shift + shift);
 
 	return offset;
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