time: x86: Fix race switching from vsyscall to non-vsyscall clock
When switching from a vsyscall capable to a non-vsyscall capable
clocksource, there was a small race, where the last vsyscall
gettimeofday before the switch might return a invalid time value
using the new non-vsyscall enabled clocksource values after the
switch is complete.
This is due to the vsyscall code checking the vclock_mode once
outside of the seqcount protected section. After it reads the
vclock mode, it doesn't re-check that the sampled clock data
that is obtained in the seqcount critical section still matches.
The fix is to sample vclock_mode inside the protected section,
and as long as it isn't VCLOCK_NONE, return the calculated
value. If it has changed and is now VCLOCK_NONE, fall back
to the syscall gettime calculation.
v2:
* Cleanup checks as suggested by tglx
* Also fix same issue present in gettimeofday path
CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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