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Message-Id: <200806040112.35245.dhazelton@enter.net> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 01:12:34 -0400 From: Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] UML - Deal with host time going backwards On Tuesday 03 June 2008 09:50:49 pm Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com> writes: > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:07:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> So if I change the host's time by an hour, the time will not advance at > >> all on the guest for the next hour? Sounds suboptimal :) > > > > It is, but if the host is whacked, the guest just has to do the best that > > it can... > > Could using a CLOCK_MONOTONIC time source fix this? Those timers do not > change when we change the time on the host. > > Eric I'm not all that familiar with the specifics of the code - my original statements about possible causes were barely more than wild guesses - but this does sound like it would work. DRH -- Dialup is like pissing through a pipette. Slow and excruciatingly painful. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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