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authorjohn stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>2008-02-10 10:48:03 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2008-02-10 10:48:03 +0100
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ntp: correct inconsistent interval/tick_length usage
clocksource initialization and error accumulation. This corrects a 280ppm drift seen on some systems using acpi_pm, and affects other clocksources as well (likely to a lesser degree). Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/timex.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/timex.h9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/timex.h b/include/linux/timex.h
index 8ea3e71ba7fa..c3f374786a43 100644
--- a/include/linux/timex.h
+++ b/include/linux/timex.h
@@ -232,7 +232,14 @@ static inline int ntp_synced(void)
#else
#define NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ (HZ)
#endif
-#define NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH (NSEC_PER_SEC/NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ)
+
+#define CLOCK_TICK_OVERFLOW (LATCH * HZ - CLOCK_TICK_RATE)
+#define CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST (((s64)CLOCK_TICK_OVERFLOW * NSEC_PER_SEC) / \
+ (s64)CLOCK_TICK_RATE)
+
+/* Because using NSEC_PER_SEC would be too easy */
+#define NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH ((((s64)TICK_USEC * NSEC_PER_USEC * USER_HZ) + \
+ CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST) / NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ)
/* Returns how long ticks are at present, in ns / 2^(SHIFT_SCALE-10). */
extern u64 current_tick_length(void);