[PATCH 2.6] Fix sys_time() to get subtick correction from the newxtim

From: La Monte H.P. Yarroll
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 07:18:26 EST


This is a Scott Wood patch against 2.6.3. He's shy, so I'm volunteering to represent him in
public :-). The Change number and BUG number are TimeSys internal references.

Change 22531 by scott@scott-50 on 2004/01/22 15:30:22

Use gettimeofday() rather than xtime.tv_sec in sys_time(),
since sys_stime() uses settimeofday() and thus subtracts
the subtick correction from the new xtime.
Fixes BUG05331 Command line LTP test stime01 fails.

stime() used settimeofday(), but time() did not use gettimeofday(). Since
settimeofday() subtracts out the current intra-tick correction, and nsec
was 0 (since stime() only allows seconds), this resulted in xtime being
slightly earlier than the time that was set. If time() had used gettimeofday(),
the correction would have been applied, and everything would be fine.
However, instead time just reads the current xtime.tv_sec, so if time() is
called immediately after stime(), you'll usually get a value one second earlier.


diff -puN kernel/arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c~fix-all-time-sys_time kernel/arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c
--- lkml/arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c~fix-all-time-sys_time 2004-03-16 10:01:23.000000000 -0500
+++ lkml-piggy/arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c 2004-03-16 10:01:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -1678,10 +1678,11 @@ asmlinkage long
sys32_time (int *tloc)
{
int i;
+ struct timeval tv;
+
+ do_gettimeofday(&tv);
+ i = tv.tv_sec;

- /* SMP: This is fairly trivial. We grab CURRENT_TIME and
- stuff it to user space. No side effects */
- i = get_seconds();
if (tloc) {
if (put_user(i, tloc))
i = -EFAULT;
diff -puN -L kernel/arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c-orig /dev/null /dev/null
diff -puN kernel/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc32.c~fix-all-time-sys_time kernel/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc32.c
--- lkml/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc32.c~fix-all-time-sys_time 2004-03-16 10:01:23.000000000 -0500
+++ lkml-piggy/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc32.c 2004-03-16 10:01:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -388,14 +388,16 @@ static inline long get_ts32(struct times

asmlinkage long sys32_time(compat_time_t *tloc)
{
- time_t now = get_seconds();
- compat_time_t now32 = now;
+ struct timeval tv;

- if (tloc)
- if (put_user(now32, tloc))
- now32 = -EFAULT;
+ do_gettimeofday(&tv);
+ compat_time_t now32 = tv.tv_sec;

- return now32;
+ if (tloc)
+ if (put_user(now32, tloc))
+ now32 = -EFAULT;
+
+ return now32;
}

asmlinkage int
diff -puN -L kernel/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc32.c-orig /dev/null /dev/null
diff -puN kernel/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c~fix-all-time-sys_time kernel/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c
--- lkml/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c~fix-all-time-sys_time 2004-03-16 10:01:23.000000000 -0500
+++ lkml-piggy/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c 2004-03-16 10:01:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -833,10 +833,11 @@ sys32_writev(int fd, struct compat_iovec
asmlinkage long sys32_time(int * tloc)
{
int i;
+ struct timeval tv;
+
+ do_gettimeofday(&tv);
+ i = tv.tv_sec;

- /* SMP: This is fairly trivial. We grab CURRENT_TIME and
- stuff it to user space. No side effects */
- i = get_seconds();
if (tloc) {
if (put_user(i,tloc))
i = -EFAULT;
diff -puN -L kernel/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c-orig /dev/null /dev/null
diff -puN kernel/kernel/time.c~fix-all-time-sys_time kernel/kernel/time.c
--- lkml/kernel/time.c~fix-all-time-sys_time 2004-03-16 10:01:23.000000000 -0500
+++ lkml-piggy/kernel/time.c 2004-03-16 10:01:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -51,10 +51,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_tz);
asmlinkage long sys_time(int * tloc)
{
int i;
+ struct timeval tv;
+
+ do_gettimeofday(&tv);
+ i = tv.tv_sec;

- /* SMP: This is fairly trivial. We grab CURRENT_TIME and
- stuff it to user space. No side effects */
- i = get_seconds();
if (tloc) {
if (put_user(i,tloc))
i = -EFAULT;
diff -puN -L kernel/kernel/time.c-orig /dev/null /dev/null

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