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    timekeeping: utilize the suspend-nonstop clocksource to count suspended time · e445cf1c
    Feng Tang authored
    There are some new processors whose TSC clocksource won't stop during
    suspend. Currently, after system resumes, kernel will use persistent
    clock or RTC to compensate the sleep time, but with these nonstop
    clocksources, we could skip the special compensation from external
    sources, and just use current clocksource for time recounting.
    
    This can solve some time drift bugs caused by some not-so-accurate or
    error-prone RTC devices.
    
    The current way to count suspended time is first try to use the persistent
    clock, and then try the RTC if persistent clock can't be used. This
    patch will change the trying order to:
    	suspend-nonstop clocksource -> persistent clock -> RTC
    
    When counting the sleep time with nonstop clocksource, use an accurate way
    suggested by Jason Gunthorpe to cover very large delta cycles.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFeng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
    [jstultz: Small optimization, avoiding re-reading the clocksource]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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