From 3195ef59cb42cda3aeeb24a7fd2ba1b900c4a3cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Prarit Bhargava Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:02:54 -0500 Subject: x86: Do full rtc synchronization with ntp Every 11 minutes ntp attempts to update the x86 rtc with the current system time. Currently, the x86 code only updates the rtc if the system time is within +/-15 minutes of the current value of the rtc. This was done originally to avoid setting the RTC if the RTC was in localtime mode (common with Windows dualbooting). Other architectures do a full synchronization and now that we have better infrastructure to detect when the RTC is in localtime, there is no reason that x86 should be software limited to a 30 minute window. This patch changes the behavior of the kernel to do a full synchronization (year, month, day, hour, minute, and second) of the rtc when ntp requests a synchronization between the system time and the rtc. I've used the RTC library functions in this patchset as they do all the required bounds checking. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: John Stultz Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: David Vrabel Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava [jstultz: Tweak commit message, fold in build fix found by fengguang Also add select RTC_LIB to X86, per new dependency, as found by prarit] Signed-off-by: John Stultz --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index a4f24f5..26bd792 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ config X86 select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32 select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION + select RTC_LIB config INSTRUCTION_DECODER def_bool y -- cgit v1.1