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time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources
authorKasper Pedersen <kkp2010@kasperkp.dk>
Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:55:15 +0000 (15:55 -0700)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Thu, 17 May 2012 15:20:55 +0000 (11:20 -0400)
commitcfd2c25155baf95e6e79466320838be17b07c542
treefec6459bd569d6ad49dd28e443e4c1999fa44a78
parente9a34a2459723a4fed8282dd15964167bbbb6b62
time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources

commit a386b5af8edda1c742ce9f77891e112eefffc005 upstream.

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@kasperkp.dk>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
kernel/time/timekeeping.c