s390/time: add support for the TOD clock epoch extension

The TOD epoch extension adds 8 epoch bits to the TOD clock to provide
a continuous clock after 2042/09/17. The store-clock-extended (STCKE)
instruction will store the epoch index in the first byte of the
16 bytes stored by the instruction. The read_boot_clock64 and the
read_presistent_clock64 functions need to take the additional bits
into account to give the correct result after 2042/09/17.

The clock-comparator register will stay 64 bit wide. The comparison
of the clock-comparator with the TOD clock is limited to bytes
1 to 8 of the extended TOD format. To deal with the overflow problem
due to an epoch change the clock-comparator sign control in CR0 can
be used to switch the comparison of the 64-bit TOD clock with the
clock-comparator to a signed comparison.

The decision between the signed vs. unsigned clock-comparator
comparisons is done at boot time. Only if the TOD clock is in the
second half of a 142 year epoch the signed comparison is used.
This solves the epoch overflow issue as long as the machine is
booted at least once in an epoch.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/setup.c b/arch/s390/kernel/setup.c
index bc1c95b7a4bd..e8b84894b650 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/setup.c
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static void __init setup_lowcore(void)
 	lc->io_new_psw.mask = PSW_KERNEL_BITS |
 		PSW_MASK_DAT | PSW_MASK_MCHECK;
 	lc->io_new_psw.addr = (unsigned long) io_int_handler;
-	lc->clock_comparator = -1ULL;
+	lc->clock_comparator = clock_comparator_max;
 	lc->kernel_stack = ((unsigned long) &init_thread_union)
 		+ THREAD_SIZE - STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD - sizeof(struct pt_regs);
 	lc->async_stack = (unsigned long)