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Subjectntp.c : possible inconsistency?
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Hi,

trying to find reasons for some crazy ntpd-behavior I read
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/67

This thread doesn't result in a pulished patch, so I (hopefully) did what was
said there. The patch doesn't break my system, but it doesn't change ntpd's
crazyness too.
Nevertheless it should be discussed again in the sense of preventing an
inconsistency.

Bernhard


PS:
Can someone point me to the reason for doing txc->constant + 4, please?

References:
lkml-thread (start)
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/26/47

ntpd-crazyness (comparing 2.6.15 with 2.6.19)
http://ml.enneenne.com/pipermail/linuxpps/2006-December/000482.html

Patch:
index 3afeaa3..36d7ecc 100644
--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct timex *txc)
result = -EINVAL;
goto leave;
}
- time_constant = min(txc->constant + 4, (long)MAXTC);
+ time_constant = min(txc->constant + 4, (long)MAXTC + 4);
}

if (txc->modes & ADJ_OFFSET) { /* values checked earlier */
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ leave: if ((time_status & (STA_UNSYNC|
STA_CLOCKERR)) != 0)
txc->maxerror = time_maxerror;
txc->esterror = time_esterror;
txc->status = time_status;
- txc->constant = time_constant;
+ txc->constant = time_constant - 4;
txc->precision = 1;
txc->tolerance = MAXFREQ;
txc->tick = tick_usec;
-
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