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timekeeping: Move reset of cycle_last for tsc clocksource to tsc
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change_clocksource resets the cycle_last value to zero then sets it to
a value read from the clocksource. The reset to zero is required only
for the TSC clocksource to make the read_tsc function work after a
resume. The reason is that the TSC read function uses cycle_last to
detect backwards going TSCs. In the resume case cycle_last contains
the TSC value from the last update before the suspend. On resume the
TSC starts counting from 0 again and would trip over the cycle_last
comparison.

This is subtle and surprising. Move the reset to a resume function in
the tsc code.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134808.142191175@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Martin Schwidefsky authored and Thomas Gleixner committed Aug 15, 2009
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
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Expand Up @@ -744,10 +744,16 @@ static cycle_t __vsyscall_fn vread_tsc(void)
}
#endif

static void resume_tsc(void)
{
clocksource_tsc.cycle_last = 0;
}

static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc = {
.name = "tsc",
.rating = 300,
.read = read_tsc,
.resume = resume_tsc,
.mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64),
.shift = 22,
.flags = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS |
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion kernel/time/timekeeping.c
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Expand Up @@ -295,7 +295,6 @@ static void change_clocksource(void)
if (old->disable)
old->disable(old);

clock->cycle_last = 0;
clock->cycle_last = clock->read(clock);
clock->error = 0;
clock->xtime_nsec = 0;
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