• Nathan Lynch's avatar
    arm64: VDSO: fix coarse clock monotonicity regression · 878854a3
    Nathan Lynch authored
    Since 906c5557 ("timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the
    real timekeeper last") it has become possible on arm64 to:
    
    - Obtain a CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE or CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE timestamp
      via syscall.
    - Subsequently obtain a timestamp for the same clock ID via VDSO which
      predates the first timestamp (by one jiffy).
    
    This is because arm64's update_vsyscall is deriving the coarse time
    using the __current_kernel_time interface, when it should really be
    using the timekeeper object provided to it by the timekeeping core.
    It happened to work before only because __current_kernel_time would
    access the same timekeeper object which had been passed to
    update_vsyscall.  This is no longer the case.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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