This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    time: Move common updates to a function

to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     time-move-common-updates-to-a-function.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


From johnstul@us.ibm.com  Tue Jul 17 15:24:46 2012
From: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:33:51 -0400
Subject: time: Move common updates to a function
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <1342546438-17534-5-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>


From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This is a backport of cc06268c6a87db156af2daed6e96a936b955cc82

While not a bugfix itself, it allows following fixes to backport
in a more straightforward manner.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c |   34 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -166,6 +166,19 @@ static struct timespec total_sleep_time;
  */
 static struct timespec raw_time;
 
+/* must hold write on xtime_lock */
+static void timekeeping_update(bool clearntp)
+{
+	if (clearntp) {
+		timekeeper.ntp_error = 0;
+		ntp_clear();
+	}
+	update_vsyscall(&xtime, &wall_to_monotonic,
+			 timekeeper.clock, timekeeper.mult);
+}
+
+
+
 /* flag for if timekeeping is suspended */
 int __read_mostly timekeeping_suspended;
 
@@ -366,11 +379,7 @@ int do_settimeofday(const struct timespe
 
 	xtime = *tv;
 
-	timekeeper.ntp_error = 0;
-	ntp_clear();
-
-	update_vsyscall(&xtime, &wall_to_monotonic, timekeeper.clock,
-				timekeeper.mult);
+	timekeeping_update(true);
 
 	write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, flags);
 
@@ -403,11 +412,7 @@ int timekeeping_inject_offset(struct tim
 	xtime = timespec_add(xtime, *ts);
 	wall_to_monotonic = timespec_sub(wall_to_monotonic, *ts);
 
-	timekeeper.ntp_error = 0;
-	ntp_clear();
-
-	update_vsyscall(&xtime, &wall_to_monotonic, timekeeper.clock,
-				timekeeper.mult);
+	timekeeping_update(true);
 
 	write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, flags);
 
@@ -630,10 +635,7 @@ void timekeeping_inject_sleeptime(struct
 
 	__timekeeping_inject_sleeptime(delta);
 
-	timekeeper.ntp_error = 0;
-	ntp_clear();
-	update_vsyscall(&xtime, &wall_to_monotonic, timekeeper.clock,
-				timekeeper.mult);
+	timekeeping_update(true);
 
 	write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, flags);
 
@@ -938,9 +940,7 @@ static void update_wall_time(void)
 		wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec -= leap;
 	}
 
-	/* check to see if there is a new clocksource to use */
-	update_vsyscall(&xtime, &wall_to_monotonic, timekeeper.clock,
-				timekeeper.mult);
+	timekeeping_update(false);
 }
 
 /**

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johnstul@us.ibm.com are

queue-3.0/timekeeping-fix-leapsecond-triggered-load-spike-issue.patch
queue-3.0/time-move-common-updates-to-a-function.patch
queue-3.0/timekeeping-fix-clock_monotonic-inconsistency-during-leapsecond.patch
queue-3.0/hrtimer-update-hrtimer-base-offsets-each-hrtimer_interrupt.patch
queue-3.0/timekeeping-add-missing-update-call-in-timekeeping_resume.patch
queue-3.0/hrtimers-move-lock-held-region-in-hrtimer_interrupt.patch
queue-3.0/hrtimer-provide-clock_was_set_delayed.patch
queue-3.0/ntp-fix-leap-second-hrtimer-livelock.patch
queue-3.0/timekeeping-provide-hrtimer-update-function.patch
queue-3.0/timekeeping-maintain-ktime_t-based-offsets-for-hrtimers.patch
queue-3.0/ntp-correct-tai-offset-during-leap-second.patch