When the clocksource is not a multiple of HZ, the clock will be off. For
acpi_pm, HZ=1000 the error is 127.111 ppm:
The rounding of cycle_interval ends up generating a false error term in
ntp_error accumulation since xtime_interval is not exactly 1/HZ. So, we
subtract out the error caused by the rounding.
This has been visible since 2.6.32-rc2
commit a092ff0f90
time: Implement logarithmic time accumulation
That commit raised NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ and exposed the rounding error.
testing tool: http://n1.taur.dk/permanent/testpmt.c
Also tested with ntpd and a frequency counter.
Signed-off-by: Kasper Pedersen <kkp2010@kasperkp.dk>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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