Commit 61b76840 ("time: Avoid
making adjustments if we haven't accumulated anything")
introduced a regression with nohz.

Basically with kernels between 2.6.20-something to 2.6.32,
we accumulate time in half second chunks, rather then every
timer-tick. This was added because when NOHZ landed, if you
were idle for a few seconds, you had to spin for every tick
we skipped in the accumulation loop, which created some bad
latencies.

However, this required that we create the xtime_cache() which
was still updated each tick, so that filesystem timestamps,
etc continued to see time increment normally.

Of course, the xtime_cache is updated at the bottom of
update_wall_time(). So the early return on
(offset < timekeeper.cycle_interval), added by the problematic
commit causes the xtime_cache to not be updated.

This can cause code using current_kernel_time() (like the mqueue
code) or hrtimer_get_softirq_time(), which uses the non-updated
xtime_cache, to see timers to fire with very coarse half-second
granularity.

Many thanks to Romain for describing the issue clearly,
providing test case to reproduce it and helping with testing
the solution.

This change is for 2.6.32-stable ONLY!

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Reported-by: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Tested-by: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>