linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] um: time-travel: fix time going backwards

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Date:   Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:55:02 +0000
From:   Vincent Whitchurch <Vincent.Whitchurch@...s.com>
To:     "johannes@...solutions.net" <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Vincent Whitchurch <Vincent.Whitchurch@...s.com>,
        "anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com" <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>,
        "richard@....at" <richard@....at>
CC:     "linux-um@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-um@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel <kernel@...s.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: time-travel: fix time going backwards

On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 09:33 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Do you have a specific workload that tends to reproduce this?

I've been seeing it when running roadtest, but it's easily reproducible
without that by using the attached config and the following program as
init.

  cp repro.config .config
  make ARCH=um olddefconfig all
  gcc -Wall -static -o repro repro.c
  ./linux time-travel init=$PWD/repro rootfstype=hostfs

With the above commands I usually see the panic in a few seconds.  This
is on an unmodified v6.6-rc7.

----8<-------
#include <time.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
        if (fork() == 0) {
                while (1) {
                        nanosleep(&(struct timespec){.tv_nsec = 330 * 1000}, NULL);
                }
                return 0;
        }
        
        while (1) {
                struct timespec ts;
                clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts);
                nanosleep(&(struct timespec){.tv_nsec = 22 * 1000}, NULL);
        }
        
        return 0;
}       

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