timers, kselftest: Add 'adjtick' test to validate adjtimex() tick adjustments
authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Tue, 6 Oct 2015 01:16:57 +0000 (18:16 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 07:51:34 +0000 (09:51 +0200)
commit6035519fcf5aa17084b41790cdc584d881d82c03
tree03fbc8affa4508d51d6370ee8fcb2e9e4e0d2b6e
parentb9f27c0f4f7db9e5a4ba59228442a75d3177470c
timers, kselftest: Add 'adjtick' test to validate adjtimex() tick adjustments

Recently a kernel side NTP bug was fixed via the following commit:

  2619d7e9c92d ("time: Fix timekeeping_freqadjust()'s incorrect use of abs() instead of abs64()")

When the bug was reported it was difficult to detect, except by
tweaking the adjtimex tick value, and noticing how quickly the
adjustment took:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/1/488

Thus this patch introduces a new test which manipulates the
adjtimex tick value and validates that the results are what we
expect.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Cc: Nuno Gonçalves <nunojpg@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444094217-20258-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
[ Tidied up the code and the changelog a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile
tools/testing/selftests/timers/adjtick.c [new file with mode: 0644]