linux-kernel - [PATCH 14/19] UML - Fix bad NTP interaction with clock

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Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:56:15 -0400
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	Ryan Finnie <ryan@...nie.org>
Subject: [PATCH 14/19] UML - Fix bad NTP interaction with clock

UML's supposed nanosecond clock interacts badly with NTP when NTP
decides that the clock has drifted ahead and needs to be slowed down.
Slowing down the clock is done by decrementing the cycle-to-nanosecond
multiplier, which is 1.  Decrementing that gives you 0 and time is
stopped.

This is fixed by switching to a microsecond clock, with a multiplier
of 1000.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@...ux.intel.com>
---
 arch/um/kernel/time.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-git/arch/um/kernel/time.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/arch/um/kernel/time.c	2008-02-15 11:43:41.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6-git/arch/um/kernel/time.c	2008-04-24 16:01:35.000000000 -0400
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static irqreturn_t um_timer(int irq, voi
 
 static cycle_t itimer_read(void)
 {
-	return os_nsecs();
+	return os_nsecs() / 1000;
 }
 
 static struct clocksource itimer_clocksource = {
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static struct clocksource itimer_clockso
 	.rating		= 300,
 	.read		= itimer_read,
 	.mask		= CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64),
-	.mult		= 1,
+	.mult		= 1000,
 	.shift		= 0,
 	.flags		= CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS,
 };
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