nixpkgs/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/revert-pvclock-sync.patch
Eelco Dolstra 5762edd607 * Linux 2.6.32: revert upstream patch
489fb490dbf8dab0249ad82b56688ae3842a79e8.  It causes the DomU clock
  to jump into the future and freeze after being saved and restored
  across a Dom0 reboot.  See 

    http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-10/msg00498.html
    http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-10/msg01174.html

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=24473
2010-10-25 16:36:42 +00:00

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diff -ru -x '*~' linux-2.6.32.24-orig/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c linux-2.6.32.24/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
--- linux-2.6.32.24-orig/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c 2010-10-01 22:51:56.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.32.24/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c 2010-10-25 14:02:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -109,14 +109,11 @@
return pv_tsc_khz;
}
-static atomic64_t last_value = ATOMIC64_INIT(0);
-
cycle_t pvclock_clocksource_read(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src)
{
struct pvclock_shadow_time shadow;
unsigned version;
cycle_t ret, offset;
- u64 last;
do {
version = pvclock_get_time_values(&shadow, src);
@@ -126,27 +123,6 @@
barrier();
} while (version != src->version);
- /*
- * Assumption here is that last_value, a global accumulator, always goes
- * forward. If we are less than that, we should not be much smaller.
- * We assume there is an error marging we're inside, and then the correction
- * does not sacrifice accuracy.
- *
- * For reads: global may have changed between test and return,
- * but this means someone else updated poked the clock at a later time.
- * We just need to make sure we are not seeing a backwards event.
- *
- * For updates: last_value = ret is not enough, since two vcpus could be
- * updating at the same time, and one of them could be slightly behind,
- * making the assumption that last_value always go forward fail to hold.
- */
- last = atomic64_read(&last_value);
- do {
- if (ret < last)
- return last;
- last = atomic64_cmpxchg(&last_value, last, ret);
- } while (unlikely(last != ret));
-
return ret;
}