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authorHaiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>2010-05-11 15:11:24 (GMT)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-05-11 22:31:52 (GMT)
commite9ec36030cca2549cb656d94347dafecfcf218f6 (patch)
tree93fc1ac781dfa7ae63a8e7d2f4b0f46b81cc5f05 /drivers
parentce7f6389790f24e07e7e32518c798451e799a830 (diff)
downloadlinux-e9ec36030cca2549cb656d94347dafecfcf218f6.tar.xz
staging: hv: Optimize adj_guesttime function and add more detailed comments
Credits go to Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> for suggesting the changes. Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/hv/hv_utils.c33
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/hv_utils.c b/drivers/staging/hv/hv_utils.c
index 8f1d3ba..db45d97a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/hv_utils.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/hv_utils.c
@@ -106,31 +106,44 @@ static void shutdown_onchannelcallback(void *context)
orderly_poweroff(false);
}
-
/*
- * Synchronize time with host after reboot, restore, etc.
+ * Set guest time to host UTC time.
*/
-static void adj_guesttime(u64 hosttime, u8 flags)
+static inline void do_adj_guesttime(u64 hosttime)
{
s64 host_tns;
struct timespec host_ts;
- static s32 scnt = 50;
host_tns = (hosttime - WLTIMEDELTA) * 100;
host_ts = ns_to_timespec(host_tns);
+ do_settimeofday(&host_ts);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Synchronize time with host after reboot, restore, etc.
+ *
+ * ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SYNC flag bit indicates reboot, restore events of the VM.
+ * After reboot the flag ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SYNC is included in the first time
+ * message after the timesync channel is opened. Since the hv_utils module is
+ * loaded after hv_vmbus, the first message is usually missed. The other
+ * thing is, systime is automatically set to emulated hardware clock which may
+ * not be UTC time or in the same time zone. So, to override these effects, we
+ * use the first 50 time samples for initial system time setting.
+ */
+static inline void adj_guesttime(u64 hosttime, u8 flags)
+{
+ static s32 scnt = 50;
+
if ((flags & ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SYNC) != 0) {
- do_settimeofday(&host_ts);
+ do_adj_guesttime(hosttime);
return;
}
- if ((flags & ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SAMPLE) != 0 &&
- scnt > 0) {
+ if ((flags & ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SAMPLE) != 0 && scnt > 0) {
scnt--;
- do_settimeofday(&host_ts);
+ do_adj_guesttime(hosttime);
}
-
- return;
}
/*