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[PATCH 0/2] validate the delta of cycle_now and cycle_last on arm64

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In multi-core system, if the clock is not sync perfectly, it
will make cycle_last that recorded by CPU-A is a little more
than cycle_now that read by CPU-B. With the negative result,
hrtimer_update_base() return a huge and wrong time. It leads
to the cpu can not finish the while loop in hrtimer_interrupt()
until the real nowtime which is returned from ktime_get() catch
up with the wrong time on clock monotonic base.

Fix it by select config CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Yang Yingliang (2):
  clocksource: replace cycle_last validation with an equal way
  arm64: validate the cycle_last to prevent time going backwards

 arch/arm64/Kconfig                 | 1 +
 kernel/time/timekeeping_internal.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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[PATCH 0/2] validate the delta of cycle_now and cycle_last on arm64 Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> - 2015-10-27 14:30 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] arm64: validate the delta of cycle_now and cycle_last Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> - 2015-10-27 14:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: validate the delta of cycle_now and cycle_last Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2015-10-27 15:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: validate the delta of cycle_now and cycle_last Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> - 2015-10-28 02:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: validate the delta of cycle_now and cycle_last Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> - 2015-10-29 08:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: validate the delta of cycle_now and cycle_last Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> - 2015-10-29 09:40 +0100
  [PATCH 1/2] clocksource: replace cycle_last validation with an equal way Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> - 2015-10-27 14:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] clocksource: replace cycle_last validation with an  equal way Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-10-30 16:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] clocksource: replace cycle_last validation with an  equal way Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> - 2015-10-31 11:10 +0100
      [PATCH resend] clocksource: modify the cycle_last validation to fit  for non-64bit clocksourece mask Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> - 2015-10-31 11:30 +0100

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