From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>

This patch does the following:

Pushs down the change from timeval to timespec in the settime routines.

Fixes two places where time was set without updating the monotonic clock
offset.  (Changes sys_stime() to call do_settimeofday() and changes
clock_warp to do the update directly.) These were bugs!

Changes the uptime code to use the posix_clock_monotonic notion of uptime
instead of the jiffies.  This time will track NTP changes and so should be
better than your standard wristwatch (if your using ntp).

Changes posix_clock_monotonic to start at 0 on boot (was set to start at
initial jiffies).

Fixes a bug (never experienced) in timer_create() in posix-timers.c where
we "could" have released timer_id 0 if "id resources" were low.

Adds a test in do_settimeofday() to error out (EINVAL) attempts to use
unnormalized times.  This is passed back up to both settimeofday and
posix_setclock().

Warning: Requires changes in .../arch/???/kernel/time.c to change
do_settimeofday() to return an error if time is not normalized and to use a
timespec instead of timeval for its input.