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nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle

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The dynamic tick allows the kernel to sleep for periods longer than a
single tick, but it does not limit the sleep time currently. In the
worst case the kernel could sleep longer than the wrap around time of
the time keeping clock source which would result in losing track of
time.

Prevent this by limiting it to the safe maximum sleep time of the
current time keeping clock source. The value is calculated when the
clock source is registered.

[ tglx: simplified the code a bit and massaged the commit msg ]

Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-2-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Jon Hunter
2009-08-18 12:45:10 -05:00
committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 529eaccd90
commit 98962465ed
5 changed files with 96 additions and 14 deletions
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@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ extern void monotonic_to_bootbased(struct timespec *ts);
extern struct timespec timespec_trunc(struct timespec t, unsigned gran);
extern int timekeeping_valid_for_hres(void);
extern u64 timekeeping_max_deferment(void);
extern void update_wall_time(void);
extern void update_xtime_cache(u64 nsec);
extern void timekeeping_leap_insert(int leapsecond);