[PATCH] use cycle_t instead of u64 in struct time_interpolator

The 32bit and 64bit PARISC Linux kernels suffers from the problem, that the
gettimeofday() call sometimes returns non-monotonic times.

The easiest way to fix this, is to drop the PARISC-specific implementation
and switch over to the generic TIME_INTERPOLATION framework.

But in order to make it even compile on 32bit PARISC, the patch below which
touches the generic Linux code, is mandatory.

More information and the full patch with the parisc-specific changes is included in this thread: http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2006-December/031003.html

As far as I could see, this patch does not change anything for the existing
architectures which use this framework (IA64 and SPARC64), since "cycles_t"
is defined there as unsigned 64bit-integer anyway (which then makes this
patch a no-change for them).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/timex.h b/include/linux/timex.h
index db501dc23c29..9a24e500c311 100644
--- a/include/linux/timex.h
+++ b/include/linux/timex.h
@@ -255,10 +255,10 @@ struct time_interpolator {
         u8 jitter;                      /* if set compensate for fluctuations */
         u32 nsec_per_cyc;               /* set by register_time_interpolator() */
         void *addr;                     /* address of counter or function */
-        u64 mask;                       /* mask the valid bits of the counter */
+        cycles_t mask;                  /* mask the valid bits of the counter */
         unsigned long offset;           /* nsec offset at last update of interpolator */
         u64 last_counter;               /* counter value in units of the counter at last update */
-        u64 last_cycle;                 /* Last timer value if TIME_SOURCE_JITTER is set */
+        cycles_t last_cycle;            /* Last timer value if TIME_SOURCE_JITTER is set */
         u64 frequency;                  /* frequency in counts/second */
         long drift;                     /* drift in parts-per-million (or -1) */
         unsigned long skips;            /* skips forward */