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time: ntp: fix bug in ntp_update_offset() & do_adjtimex()
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Impact: change (fix) the way the NTP PLL seconds offset is initialized/tracked

Fix a bug and do a micro-optimization:

When PLL is enabled we do not reset time_reftime. If the PLL
was off for a long time (for example after bootup), this is
arguably the wrong thing to do.

We already had a hack for the common boot-time case in
ntp_update_offset(), in form of:

	if (unlikely(time_status & STA_FREQHOLD || time_reftime == 0))
 		secs = 0;

But the update delta should be reset later on too - not just when
the PLL is enabled for the first time after bootup.

So do it on !STA_PLL -> STA_PLL transitions.

This changes behavior, as previously if ntpd was disabled for
a long time and we restarted it, we'd run from that last update,
with a very large delta.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar committed Feb 25, 2009
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9 changes: 8 additions & 1 deletion kernel/time/ntp.c
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Expand Up @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static void ntp_update_offset(long offset)
* and in which mode (PLL or FLL).
*/
secs = xtime.tv_sec - time_reftime;
if (unlikely(time_status & STA_FREQHOLD || time_reftime == 0))
if (unlikely(time_status & STA_FREQHOLD))
secs = 0;

time_reftime = xtime.tv_sec;
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}
/* only set allowed bits */
time_status &= STA_RONLY;
/*
* If we turn on PLL adjustments then reset the
* reference time to current time.
*/
if (!(time_status & STA_PLL) && (txc->status & STA_PLL))
time_reftime = xtime.tv_sec;

time_status |= txc->status & ~STA_RONLY;

switch (time_state) {
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