[tip:timers/urgent] timekeeping: Correct run-time detection of persistent_clock.

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Commit-ID:  0d6bd9953f739dad96d9a0de65383e479ab4e10d
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/0d6bd9953f739dad96d9a0de65383e479ab4e10d
Author:     Zoran Markovic <zoran.markovic@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:24:05 -0700
Committer:  John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 28 May 2013 13:45:19 -0700

timekeeping: Correct run-time detection of persistent_clock.

Since commit 31ade30692dc9680bfc95700d794818fa3f754ac, timekeeping_init()
checks for presence of persistent clock by attempting to read a non-zero
time value. This is an issue on platforms where persistent_clock (instead
is implemented as a free-running counter (instead of an RTC) starting
from zero on each boot and running during suspend. Examples are some ARM
platforms (e.g. PandaBoard).

An attempt to read such a clock during timekeeping_init() may return zero
value and falsely declare persistent clock as missing. Additionally, in
the above case suspend times may be accounted twice (once from
timekeeping_resume() and once from rtc_resume()), resulting in a gradual
drift of system time.

This patch does a run-time correction of the issue by doing the same check
during timekeeping_suspend().

A better long-term solution would have to return error when trying to read
non-existing clock and zero when trying to read an uninitialized clock, but
that would require changing all persistent_clock implementations.

This patch addresses the immediate breakage, for now.

Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Zoran Markovic <zoran.markovic@xxxxxxxxxx>
[jstultz: Tweaked commit message and subject]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 98cd470..baeeb5c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -975,6 +975,14 @@ static int timekeeping_suspend(void)
 
 	read_persistent_clock(&timekeeping_suspend_time);
 
+	/*
+	 * On some systems the persistent_clock can not be detected at
+	 * timekeeping_init by its return value, so if we see a valid
+	 * value returned, update the persistent_clock_exists flag.
+	 */
+	if (timekeeping_suspend_time.tv_sec || timekeeping_suspend_time.tv_nsec)
+		persistent_clock_exist = true;
+
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&timekeeper_lock, flags);
 	write_seqcount_begin(&timekeeper_seq);
 	timekeeping_forward_now(tk);
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