x86_64: vsyscall time() fix
The vsyscall time() function basically returns the second portion of xtime directly. This however means that there is about a ticks worth of time each second where time() will return a second value less then what gettimeofday() does. Additionally, this window where vtime() is behind vgettimeofday() grows when dynticks is enabled, so its probably good to get this in before dynticks lands. Big thanks to Sripathi for noticing this issue and creating a test case to work with! This patch changes the vtime() implemenation to call vgettimeofday(), much as syscall time() implementation calls gettimeofday(). 2.6.21 stable candidate too Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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