From: john stultz As part of my timeofday rework, I've been looking at the NTP code and I noticed that the PPC architecture is apparently misusing the NTP's time_offset (it is a terrible name!) value as some form of timezone offset. This could cause problems when time_offset changed by the NTP code. This patch changes the PPC code so it uses a more clear local variable: timezone_offset. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Acked-by: Tom Rini Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/ppc/kernel/time.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/ppc/kernel/time.c~ppc32-stop-misusing-ntps-time_offset-value arch/ppc/kernel/time.c --- devel/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c~ppc32-stop-misusing-ntps-time_offset-value 2005-06-30 22:09:22.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c 2005-06-30 22:09:22.000000000 -0700 @@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ unsigned long tb_to_ns_scale; extern unsigned long wall_jiffies; +/* used for timezone offset */ +static long timezone_offset; + DEFINE_SPINLOCK(rtc_lock); EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtc_lock); @@ -170,7 +173,7 @@ void timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs * re xtime.tv_sec - last_rtc_update >= 659 && abs((xtime.tv_nsec / 1000) - (1000000-1000000/HZ)) < 500000/HZ && jiffies - wall_jiffies == 1) { - if (ppc_md.set_rtc_time(xtime.tv_sec+1 + time_offset) == 0) + if (ppc_md.set_rtc_time(xtime.tv_sec+1 + timezone_offset) == 0) last_rtc_update = xtime.tv_sec+1; else /* Try again one minute later */ @@ -286,7 +289,7 @@ void __init time_init(void) unsigned old_stamp, stamp, elapsed; if (ppc_md.time_init != NULL) - time_offset = ppc_md.time_init(); + timezone_offset = ppc_md.time_init(); if (__USE_RTC()) { /* 601 processor: dec counts down by 128 every 128ns */ @@ -331,10 +334,10 @@ void __init time_init(void) set_dec(tb_ticks_per_jiffy); /* If platform provided a timezone (pmac), we correct the time */ - if (time_offset) { - sys_tz.tz_minuteswest = -time_offset / 60; + if (timezone_offset) { + sys_tz.tz_minuteswest = -timezone_offset / 60; sys_tz.tz_dsttime = 0; - xtime.tv_sec -= time_offset; + xtime.tv_sec -= timezone_offset; } set_normalized_timespec(&wall_to_monotonic, -xtime.tv_sec, -xtime.tv_nsec); _