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Currently, leapsecond adjustments are done at tick time. As a result, the leapsecond was applied at the first timer tick *after* the leapsecond (~1-10ms late depending on HZ), rather then exactly on the second edge. This was in part historical from back when we were always tick based, but correcting this since has been avoided since it adds extra conditional checks in the gettime fastpath, which has performance overhead. However, it was recently pointed out that ABS_TIME CLOCK_REALTIME timers set for right after the leapsecond could fire a second early, since some timers may be expired before we trigger the timekeeping timer, which then applies the leapsecond. This isn't quite as bad as it sounds, since behaviorally it is similar to what is possible w/ ntpd made leapsecond adjustments done w/o using the kernel discipline. Where due to latencies, timers may fire just prior to the settimeofday call. (Also, one should note that all applications using CLOCK_REALTIME timers should always be careful, since they are prone to quirks from settimeofday() disturbances.) However, the purpose of having the kernel do the leap adjustment is to avoid such latencies, so I think this is worth fixing. So in order to properly keep those timers from firing a second early, this patch modifies the ntp and timekeeping logic so that we keep enough state so that the update_base_offsets_now accessor, which provides the hrtimer core the current time, can check and apply the leapsecond adjustment on the second edge. This prevents the hrtimer core from expiring timers too early. This patch does not modify any other time read path, so no additional overhead is incurred. However, this also means that the leap-second continues to be applied at tick time for all other read-paths. Apologies to Richard Cochran, who pushed for similar changes years ago, which I resisted due to the concerns about the performance overhead. While I suspect this isn't extremely critical, folks who care about strict leap-second correctness will likely want to watch this. Potentially a -stable candidate eventually. Originally-suggested-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434063297-28657-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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537 B
C
13 lines
537 B
C
#ifndef _LINUX_NTP_INTERNAL_H
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#define _LINUX_NTP_INTERNAL_H
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extern void ntp_init(void);
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extern void ntp_clear(void);
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/* Returns how long ticks are at present, in ns / 2^NTP_SCALE_SHIFT. */
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extern u64 ntp_tick_length(void);
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extern ktime_t ntp_get_next_leap(void);
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extern int second_overflow(unsigned long secs);
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extern int ntp_validate_timex(struct timex *);
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extern int __do_adjtimex(struct timex *, struct timespec64 *, s32 *);
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extern void __hardpps(const struct timespec *, const struct timespec *);
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#endif /* _LINUX_NTP_INTERNAL_H */
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