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Commit 17c38b74 authored by John Stultz's avatar John Stultz Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Cache xtime every call to update_wall_time



This avoids xtime lag seen with dynticks, because while 'xtime' itself
is still not updated often, we keep a 'xtime_cache' variable around that
contains the approximate real-time that _is_ updated each time we do a
'update_wall_time()', and is thus never off by more than one tick.

IOW, this restores the original semantics for 'xtime' users, as long as
you use the proper abstraction functions (ie 'current_kernel_time()' or
'get_seconds()' depending on whether you want a timespec or just the
seconds field).

[ Updated Patch.  As penance for my sins I've also yanked another #ifdef
  that was added to avoid the xtime lag w/ hrtimers.  ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 2c6b47de
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