The dispersion of refclock samples before filtering now includes only
offset correction error and precision.
This should fix a problem where locked PPS got stuck with large average
dispersion and didn't accept new samples due failing check of offset
and dispersion.
Since the kernel USER_HZ constant was introduced and the internal HZ
can't be reliably detected in user-space, the frequency scaling constant
used with older kernels is just a random guess.
Remove the scaling completely and let the closed loop compensate for the
error. To prevent thrashing between two states when the system's
frequency error is close to a multiple of USER_HZ, stick to the current
tick value if it's next to the new required tick. This is used only on
archs where USER_HZ is 100 as the frequency adjustment is limited to 500
ppm.
The linux_hz and linux_freq_scale directives are no longer supported,
but allowed by the config parser.
This patch fixes leap second handling for the PPS refclock. Without the
patch the PPS refclock will always report LEAP_normal. But if a locked
refclock (the SHM clock in my case) does report a leap state it should
also be taken over by the PPS refclock, otherwise chrony will still use
LEAP_normal when the PPS clock is used as reference source.
The patch will copy the leap state from the refclock. In case the PPS
clock is not specifically locked to another refclock it will take over
the leap state from the local clock.
I've tested this patch by simulating a leap second through the samples
for the SHM clock, and with the patch you will see chrony properly jump
forward or backward on the leap second. Without the patch it will not do
this and the clock becomes desynchronized and no leap state is reported
upstream to other NTP clients.
Signed-off-by: Tjalling Hattink <t.hattink@fugro.nl>
There is no need to try to correct offsets below the specified minimum
(1 nanosecond), let the clock drift away after crossing zero offset and
avoid unnecessary updates.
With the generic driver, the maxslewrate directive sets the maximum
frequency offset that the driver is allowed to use to slew the time. By
default, it's set to 83333.333 (1/12). This is identical to what Linux
fast slewing used to use.
Strip all slewing code (adjtime(), freq locked nano PLL, fast tick
slewing) from the Linux driver and use the new generic frequency only
slewing instead. The advantages include stable clock control with very
short update intervals, good control of the slewing frequency, cheap
cooking of raw time stamps and unlimited frequency offset.
This driver is intended to complete system-specific drivers that don't
have implemented all required driver functionality. Currently, it
implements offset functions working on top of system-specific frequency
functions. Offsets are corrected by changing frequency, similarly to
fast slewing implemented in the Linux driver.
This is to make sure chronyd will see the remote address as 127.0.0.1
and allow access even when localhost resolves to an address of a
non-loopback interface.
Run getaddrinfo()/gethostbyname() in separate thread to avoid blocking.
Only one resolving thread is running at one time, so this should work
also on systems where the functions are not thread-safe.
Use the new asynchronous call to resolve addresses of NTP servers
configured by the server/peer directives. Introduce a callback to be
notified when the first resolving attempt ends to correctly finish
chronyd initialization (dumpfile reload and reference mode end).
This will be needed to prevent loading of dump files after sources have
already accumulated samples and possibly reference was already updated
when async resolving of sources is implemented.
When source is set as active, it's receiving reachability updates (e.g.
offline NTP sources are not active).
Also add function to count active sources.
Instead of giving up when a source has 7 reach updates, continue as long
as at least one source has fewer than 7 updates and can still have 3
samples to be selectable in that number of updates.
When no sources are responding, it will give up sooner.
With special reference update modes, the timeout handlers may add or
remove file descriptors from the read fd set, so it needs to be copied
for select() call after they are dispatched. Also, they can now request
quit, so the exit flag needs to be checked before select() to avoid
hanging.
