timekeeping: Provide hrtimer update function
commitec5806bcd08281a86e05b8e4eaf2f377bc8e5b24
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:43:24 +0000 (10 18:43 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:11:36 +0000 (25 04:11 +0100)
treeade73ebb967c9a673b87c81609a4c275621b1a6c
parentd6a2a0400e36bcd2892272995a65b4bca029220f
timekeeping: Provide hrtimer update function

This is a backport of f6c06abfb3972ad4914cef57d8348fcb2932bc3b

To finally fix the infamous leap second issue and other race windows
caused by functions which change the offsets between the various time
bases (CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME) we need a
function which atomically gets the current monotonic time and updates
the offsets of CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME with minimalistic
overhead. The previous patch which provides ktime_t offsets allows us
to make this function almost as cheap as ktime_get() which is going to
be replaced in hrtimer_interrupt().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-7-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[John Stultz: Backported to 3.2]
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
include/linux/hrtimer.h
kernel/time/timekeeping.c