From: Haiyang Zhang on
From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz(a)microsoft.com>

Subject: Optimize adj_guesttime function and add more detailed comments
Credits go to Joe Perches [joe(a)perches.com] for suggesting the changes.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen(a)microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz(a)microsoft.com>

---
drivers/staging/hv/hv_utils.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/hv_utils.c b/drivers/staging/hv/hv_utils.c
index 8f1d3ba..db45d97 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/hv_utils.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/hv_utils.c
@@ -106,31 +106,44 @@ static void shutdown_onchannelcallback(void *context)
orderly_poweroff(false);
}

-
/*
- * Synchronize time with host after reboot, restore, etc.
+ * Set guest time to host UTC time.
*/
-static void adj_guesttime(u64 hosttime, u8 flags)
+static inline void do_adj_guesttime(u64 hosttime)
{
s64 host_tns;
struct timespec host_ts;
- static s32 scnt = 50;

host_tns = (hosttime - WLTIMEDELTA) * 100;
host_ts = ns_to_timespec(host_tns);

+ do_settimeofday(&host_ts);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Synchronize time with host after reboot, restore, etc.
+ *
+ * ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SYNC flag bit indicates reboot, restore events of the VM..
+ * After reboot the flag ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SYNC is included in the first time
+ * message after the timesync channel is opened. Since the hv_utils module is
+ * loaded after hv_vmbus, the first message is usually missed. The other
+ * thing is, systime is automatically set to emulated hardware clock which may
+ * not be UTC time or in the same time zone. So, to override these effects, we
+ * use the first 50 time samples for initial system time setting.
+ */
+static inline void adj_guesttime(u64 hosttime, u8 flags)
+{
+ static s32 scnt = 50;
+
if ((flags & ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SYNC) != 0) {
- do_settimeofday(&host_ts);
+ do_adj_guesttime(hosttime);
return;
}

- if ((flags & ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SAMPLE) != 0 &&
- scnt > 0) {
+ if ((flags & ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SAMPLE) != 0 && scnt > 0) {
scnt--;
- do_settimeofday(&host_ts);
+ do_adj_guesttime(hosttime);
}
-
- return;
}

/*
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