On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> Il 05/09/2014 20:33, Thomas Gleixner ha scritto:
> >> >          update_vsyscall(tk);
> >> > -        update_pvclock_gtod(tk, action & TK_CLOCK_WAS_SET);
> >> > 
> >> >          tk_update_ktime_data(tk);
> >> > +        update_pvclock_gtod(tk, action & TK_CLOCK_WAS_SET);
> > Why are you moving the update between vsycall and pvclock update as I
> > did in my patch? We really need to update everything before calling
> > somewhere.
> 
> Do you mean the call should be moved not just after tk_update_ktime_data
> (which sets base_mono), but further down after
> 
>         update_fast_timekeeper(tk);

No, it needs to be above update_vsyscall(). Here is the patch again
which I sent before. [https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/5/395]

Thanks,

        tglx

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index fb4a9c2cf8d9..ec1791fae965 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -442,11 +442,12 @@ static void timekeeping_update(struct timekeeper *tk, 
unsigned int action)
                tk->ntp_error = 0;
                ntp_clear();
        }
-       update_vsyscall(tk);
-       update_pvclock_gtod(tk, action & TK_CLOCK_WAS_SET);
 
        tk_update_ktime_data(tk);
 
+       update_vsyscall(tk);
+       update_pvclock_gtod(tk, action & TK_CLOCK_WAS_SET);
+
        if (action & TK_MIRROR)
                memcpy(&shadow_timekeeper, &tk_core.timekeeper,
                       sizeof(tk_core.timekeeper));
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