timekeeping: Provide hrtimer update function
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:43:24 +0000 (18:43 -0400)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:34:39 +0000 (23:34 +0200)
commitf6c06abfb3972ad4914cef57d8348fcb2932bc3b
tree5882f90d98d0429b30d0f7f7d35c14f6e0a5125a
parent196951e91262fccda81147d2bcf7fdab08668b40
timekeeping: Provide hrtimer update function

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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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>
include/linux/hrtimer.h
kernel/time/timekeeping.c