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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:52:03 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Kyle Moffett <kyle@...fetthome.net>
cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@...nd.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...band.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 0/7] system time changes notification
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:57, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> > > Consider we want stuff like "wakeup every day at 3pm", the next wakeup
> > > might be earlier than the timer we calculated last time, on system
> > > time changes. We need to re-calculate it. This is necessary for all
> > > repeating events.
> > >
> > > Say we want to wakeup at 3pm, now it's 4pm, so we schedule it in 23
> > > hours. Now the system time changes to 2pm, and we would expect to
> > > wakeup in one hour, but we take 25.
> >
> > And that's why we have posix-timers with the ability to arm absolute
> > timers. They already deal with the clock being set.
> >
> > man timer_settime
> >
>
> This still doesn't help with the specified use-case. For example, consider
> the case of configuring my crontab to run a command every day at 2PM.
>
> Let's assume that I then start the cron daemon at 2:05PM, and it establishes
> an absolute timer at 2PM the following day.
>
> I then realize that the clock is wrong, and correct it to read 1:55PM.
>
> The problem is... cron's timer is still set to trigger at 2PM *tomorrow*,
> instead of being readjusted at the time the clock is changed to go off at
> 2PM *today*.
>
> Right now there's really no way to fix that other than polling every so
> often to recheck the system time is what you expect.
Hmm, ok.
So what you really want is a timer which drops back to user space with
an appropriate error code when something fiddled with the clock.
That's reasonably easy to implement as an extension at least for
clock_nanosleep. For the signal based timers it'd be probably quite
nasty, but doable.
Thanks,
tglx
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