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arm64: vdso: defer shifting of nanosecond component of timespec
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:33:29 +0000 (22:33 +0000)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:20:03 +0000 (11:20 +0000)
commit45a7905fc48f6079932e77d64237cf7f008db5f4
tree93b60ea0b2c3daf94b50dfa3125b2a3c59a0ff1b
parentd91fb5c2677db90460611fce72e6a0af8f6c2a73
arm64: vdso: defer shifting of nanosecond component of timespec

Shifting the nanosecond component of the computed timespec early can
lead to sub-ns inaccuracies when using the truncated value as input to
further arithmetic for things like conversions to monotonic time.

This patch defers the timespec shifting until after the final value has
been computed.

Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S