arm64: vdso: defer shifting of nanosecond component of timespec
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:33:29 +0000 (22:33 +0000)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:20:03 +0000 (11:20 +0000)
Shifting the nanosecond component of the computed timespec early can
lead to sub-ns inaccuracies when using the truncated value as input to
further arithmetic for things like conversions to monotonic time.

This patch defers the timespec shifting until after the final value has
been computed.

Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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