[PATCH V9 01/13] time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset

From: Richard Cochran
Date: Thu Jan 13 2011 - 06:32:06 EST


From: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>

This adds a kernel-internal timekeeping interface to add or subtract
a fixed amount from CLOCK_REALTIME. This makes it so kernel users or
interfaces trying to do so do not have to read the time, then add an
offset and then call settimeofday(), which adds some extra error in
comparision to just simply adding the offset in the kernel timekeeping
core.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/time.h | 1 +
kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
index 9f15ac7..b402134 100644
--- a/include/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/linux/time.h
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ extern int timekeeping_valid_for_hres(void);
extern u64 timekeeping_max_deferment(void);
extern void update_wall_time(void);
extern void timekeeping_leap_insert(int leapsecond);
+extern int timekeeping_inject_offset(struct timespec *ts);

struct tms;
extern void do_sys_times(struct tms *);
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 5bb86da..bc10622 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -344,6 +344,42 @@ int do_settimeofday(struct timespec *tv)

EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_settimeofday);

+
+/**
+ * timekeeping_inject_offset - Adds or subtracts from the current time.
+ * @tv: pointer to the timespec variable containing the offset
+ *
+ * Adds or subtracts an offset value from the current time.
+ */
+int timekeeping_inject_offset(struct timespec *ts)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ if ((unsigned long)ts->tv_nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ write_seqlock_irqsave(&xtime_lock, flags);
+
+ timekeeping_forward_now();
+
+ xtime = timespec_add(xtime, *ts);
+ wall_to_monotonic = timespec_sub(wall_to_monotonic, *ts);
+
+ timekeeper.ntp_error = 0;
+ ntp_clear();
+
+ update_vsyscall(&xtime, &wall_to_monotonic, timekeeper.clock,
+ timekeeper.mult);
+
+ write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, flags);
+
+ /* signal hrtimers about time change */
+ clock_was_set();
+
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(timekeeping_inject_offset);
+
/**
* change_clocksource - Swaps clocksources if a new one is available
*
--
1.7.0.4

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