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authorAlok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>2009-02-18 23:33:55 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-20 09:53:08 +0300
commit48ffc70b675aa7798a52a2e92e20f6cce9140b3d (patch)
treefe920201caf48cb2c100cd429a2803f70cc45368 /arch
parent402a917aca5daca69fcc91f43e6f1e6939cf393b (diff)
downloadlinux-48ffc70b675aa7798a52a2e92e20f6cce9140b3d.tar.xz
x86, vmi: TSC going backwards check in vmi clocksource
Impact: fix time warps under vmware Similar to the check for TSC going backwards in the TSC clocksource, we also need this check for VMI clocksource. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vmiclock_32.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmiclock_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vmiclock_32.c
index c4c1f9e09402..bde106cae0a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmiclock_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmiclock_32.c
@@ -283,10 +283,13 @@ void __devinit vmi_time_ap_init(void)
#endif
/** vmi clocksource */
+static struct clocksource clocksource_vmi;
static cycle_t read_real_cycles(void)
{
- return vmi_timer_ops.get_cycle_counter(VMI_CYCLES_REAL);
+ cycle_t ret = (cycle_t)vmi_timer_ops.get_cycle_counter(VMI_CYCLES_REAL);
+ return ret >= clocksource_vmi.cycle_last ?
+ ret : clocksource_vmi.cycle_last;
}
static struct clocksource clocksource_vmi = {