From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] hv_util: use do_adjtimex() to update system time
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 20:41:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170102194114.657-4-vkuznets@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170102194114.657-1-vkuznets@redhat.com>
With TimeSync version 4 protocol support we started updating system time
continuously through the whole lifetime of Hyper-V guests. Every 5 seconds
there is a time sample from the host which triggers do_settimeofday[64]().
While the time from the host is very accurate such adjustments may cause
issues:
- Time is jumping forward and backward, some applications may misbehave.
- In case an NTP client is run in parallel things may go south, e.g. when
an NTP client tries to adjust tick/frequency with ADJ_TICK/ADJ_FREQUENCY
the Hyper-V module will not see this changes and time will oscillate and
never converge.
- Systemd starts annoying you by printing "Time has been changed" every 5
seconds to the system log.
Instead of calling do_settimeofday64() we can pretend being an NTP client
and use do_adjtimex().
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
---
drivers/hv/hv_util.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
index 94719eb..4c0fbb0 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
@@ -182,9 +182,10 @@ struct adj_time_work {
static void hv_set_host_time(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct adj_time_work *wrk;
- s64 host_tns;
+ s64 host_tns, our_tns, delta;
u64 newtime;
- struct timespec64 host_ts;
+ struct timespec64 host_ts, our_ts;
+ struct timex txc = {0};
wrk = container_of(work, struct adj_time_work, work);
@@ -205,7 +206,25 @@ static void hv_set_host_time(struct work_struct *work)
host_tns = (newtime - WLTIMEDELTA) * 100;
host_ts = ns_to_timespec64(host_tns);
- do_settimeofday64(&host_ts);
+ getnstimeofday64(&our_ts);
+ our_tns = timespec64_to_ns(&our_ts);
+
+ /* Difference between our time and host time */
+ delta = host_tns - our_tns;
+
+ /* Try adjusting time by using phase adjustment if possible */
+ if (abs(delta) > MAXPHASE) {
+ do_settimeofday64(&host_ts);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ txc.modes = ADJ_TICK | ADJ_FREQUENCY | ADJ_OFFSET | ADJ_NANO |
+ ADJ_STATUS;
+ txc.tick = TICK_USEC;
+ txc.freq = 0;
+ txc.status = STA_PLL;
+ txc.offset = delta;
+ do_adjtimex(&txc);
}
/*
--
2.9.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-02 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-02 19:41 [PATCH 0/4] hv_util: adjust system time smoothly Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-01-02 19:41 ` [PATCH 1/4] timekeeping: export do_adjtimex() to modules Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-01-02 19:41 ` [PATCH 2/4] hv_util: switch to using timespec64 Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-01-02 19:41 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2017-01-02 23:24 ` [PATCH 3/4] hv_util: use do_adjtimex() to update system time Alex Ng (LIS)
2017-01-03 12:32 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-01-03 19:48 ` Alex Ng (LIS)
2017-01-09 17:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-09 17:40 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-01-09 17:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-09 18:14 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-01-09 18:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-02 19:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] hv_util: improve time adjustment accuracy by disabling interrupts Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-01-02 19:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-03 12:28 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
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