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ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path
authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:54:56 +0000 (15:54 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:15:49 +0000 (11:15 +0200)
commit99eca1f3de35e83ebf63b5889a96b41ee1be9276
tree6303e6876a6ac67a9186d44e44bd497f96def781
parent1d6d1462b3bc475ae1d69358d8c0cca07fdcfbc9
ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path

Since the leapsecond is applied at tick-time, this means there is a
small window of time at the start of a leap-second where we cross into
the next second before applying the leap.

This patch modified adjtimex so that the leap-second is applied on the
second edge. Providing more correct leapsecond behavior.

This does make it so that adjtimex()'s returned time values can be
inconsistent with time values read from gettimeofday() or
clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME,...)  for a brief period of one tick at
the leapsecond.  However, those other interfaces do not provide the
TIME_OOP time_state return that adjtimex() provides, which allows the
leapsecond to be properly represented. They instead only see a time
discontinuity, and cannot tell the first 23:59:59 from the repeated
23:59:59 leap second.

This seems like a reasonable tradeoff given clock_gettime() /
gettimeofday() cannot properly represent a leapsecond, and users
likely care more about performance, while folks who are using
adjtimex() more likely care about leap-second correctness.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434063297-28657-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/time/ntp.c