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    powerpc: Fix problem with time going backwards · 0a45d449
    Paul Mackerras authored
    
    
    The recent changes to keep gettimeofday in sync with xtime had the side
    effect that it was occasionally possible for the time reported by
    gettimeofday to go back by a microsecond.  There were two reasons:
    (1) when we recalculated the offsets used by gettimeofday every 2^31
    timebase ticks, we lost an accumulated fractional microsecond, and
    (2) because the update is done some time after the notional start of
    jiffy, if ntp is slowing the clock, it is possible to see time go backwards
    when the timebase factor gets reduced.
    
    This fixes it by (a) slowing the gettimeofday clock by about 1us in
    2^31 timebase ticks (a factor of less than 1 in 3.7 million), and (b)
    adjusting the timebase offsets in the rare case that the gettimeofday
    result could possibly go backwards (i.e. when ntp is slowing the clock
    and the timer interrupt is late).  In this case the adjustment will
    reduce to zero eventually because of (a).
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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