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time: compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources
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time-compensate-for-rounding-on-odd-frequency-clocksources.patch
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Subject: time: compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources
From: Kasper Pedersen <kkp2010@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: 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>
---
kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/time/timekeeping.c~time-compensate-for-rounding-on-odd-frequency-clocksources kernel/time/timekeeping.c
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c~time-compensate-for-rounding-on-odd-frequency-clocksources
+++ a/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(s
/* 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(s
/* 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;
@@ -746,7 +750,8 @@ static cycle_t logarithmic_accumulation(
/* 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;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kkp2010@xxxxxxxxxxx are
time-compensate-for-rounding-on-odd-frequency-clocksources.patch
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