[chrony-dev] [PATCH] MacOS X - add drift removal

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Also modifies way rounding is done in start_adjust(). No need to use kernel clockinfo. 
Fixes sign issue in stop_adjust()

---
 sys_macosx.c | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys_macosx.c b/sys_macosx.c
index 30945a4..c3ee8e7 100644
--- a/sys_macosx.c
+++ b/sys_macosx.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 
 #include "sys_macosx.h"
 #include "localp.h"
+#include "sched.h"
 #include "logging.h"
 #include "util.h"
 
@@ -69,11 +70,6 @@ static double current_freq;
 
 static double adjustment_requested;
 
-/* Kernel parameters to calculate adjtime error. */
-
-static int kern_tickadj;
-static long kern_bigadj;
-
 /* ================================================== */
 
 static void
@@ -114,8 +110,6 @@ start_adjust(void)
   struct timeval T1;
   double elapsed, accrued_error;
   double adjust_required;
-  struct timeval exact_newadj;
-  long delta, tickdelta;
   double rounding_error;
   double old_adjust_remaining;
 
@@ -129,35 +123,17 @@ start_adjust(void)
 
   adjust_required = - (accrued_error + offset_register);
 
-  UTI_DoubleToTimeval(adjust_required, &exact_newadj);
-
-  /* At this point, we need to round the required adjustment the
-     same way the kernel does. */
-
-  delta = exact_newadj.tv_sec * 1000000 + exact_newadj.tv_usec;
-  if (delta > kern_bigadj || delta < -kern_bigadj)
-    tickdelta = 10 * kern_tickadj;
-  else
-    tickdelta = kern_tickadj;
-  if (delta % tickdelta)
-	delta = delta / tickdelta * tickdelta;
-  newadj.tv_sec = 0;
-  newadj.tv_usec = (int)delta;
-  UTI_NormaliseTimeval(&newadj);
-
-  /* Add rounding error back onto offset register. */
-  UTI_DiffTimevalsToDouble(&rounding_error, &newadj, &exact_newadj);
+  UTI_DoubleToTimeval(adjust_required, &newadj);
+  UTI_TimevalToDouble(&newadj, &adjustment_requested);
+  rounding_error = adjust_required - adjustment_requested;
 
   if (adjtime(&newadj, &oldadj) < 0) {
     LOG_FATAL(LOGF_SysMacOSX, "adjtime() failed");
   }
 
   UTI_TimevalToDouble(&oldadj, &old_adjust_remaining);
-
-  offset_register = rounding_error - old_adjust_remaining;
-
+  offset_register = - (rounding_error + old_adjust_remaining);
   T0 = T1;
-  UTI_TimevalToDouble(&newadj, &adjustment_requested);
 }
 
 /* ================================================== */
@@ -185,7 +161,7 @@ stop_adjust(void)
   UTI_TimevalToDouble(&remadj, &adjustment_remaining);
 
   adjustment_achieved = adjustment_requested - adjustment_remaining;
-  elapsed_plus_adjust = elapsed - adjustment_achieved;
+  elapsed_plus_adjust = elapsed - fabs(adjustment_achieved);
 
   offset_register += current_freq * elapsed_plus_adjust - adjustment_remaining;
 
@@ -272,26 +248,35 @@ get_offset_correction(struct timeval *raw,
 
 /* ================================================== */
 
-void
-SYS_MacOSX_Initialise(void)
-{
-  int result;
-  size_t len;
-  struct clockinfo clockinfo;
-  int mib[2];
+/* Interval in seconds between adjustments to cancel systematic drift */
+#define DRIFT_REMOVAL_INTERVAL (1.0)
 
-  mib[0] = CTL_KERN;
-  mib[1] = KERN_CLOCKRATE;
+static int drift_removal_running = 0;
+static SCH_TimeoutID drift_removal_id;
 
-  len = sizeof(clockinfo);
-  result = sysctl(mib, 2, &clockinfo, &len, NULL, 0);
+/* ================================================== */
+/* This is the timer callback routine which is called periodically to
+ invoke a time adjustment to take out the machine's drift.
+ Otherwise, times reported through this software (e.g. by running
+ ntpdate from another machine) show the machine being correct (since
+ they correct for drift build-up), but any program on this machine
+ that reads the system time will be given an erroneous value, the
+ degree of error depending on how long it is since
+ get_offset_correction was last called. */
 
-  if(result < 0) {
-    LOG_FATAL(LOGF_SysMacOSX, "Cannot read clockinfo");
-  }
-  kern_tickadj = clockinfo.tickadj;
-  kern_bigadj = clockinfo.tick;
+static void
+drift_removal_timeout(SCH_ArbitraryArgument not_used)
+{
+  stop_adjust();
+  start_adjust();
+  drift_removal_id = SCH_AddTimeoutByDelay(DRIFT_REMOVAL_INTERVAL, drift_removal_timeout, NULL);
+}
+
+/* ================================================== */
 
+void
+SYS_MacOSX_Initialise(void)
+{
   clock_initialise();
 
   lcl_RegisterSystemDrivers(read_frequency, set_frequency,
@@ -299,6 +284,10 @@ SYS_MacOSX_Initialise(void)
                             get_offset_correction,
                             NULL /* set_leap */,
                             NULL /* set_sync_status */);
+
+
+  drift_removal_id = SCH_AddTimeoutByDelay(DRIFT_REMOVAL_INTERVAL, drift_removal_timeout, NULL);
+  drift_removal_running = 1;
 }
 
 /* ================================================== */
@@ -306,6 +295,10 @@ SYS_MacOSX_Initialise(void)
 void
 SYS_MacOSX_Finalise(void)
 {
+  if (drift_removal_running) {
+    SCH_RemoveTimeout(drift_removal_id);
+  }
+
   clock_finalise();
 }
 
-- 
2.3.2 (Apple Git-55)


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