>From 06e1e4ffbd1932e288839b3140cda6b8141eb684
Protection against the host's time going backwards (eg, ntp activity on
the host) by keeping track of the time at the last tick and if it's
greater than the current time, keep time stopped until the host catches
up.
Cc: Nix <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
---
arch/um/os-Linux/time.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
index bee98f4..dec5678 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ static void deliver_alarm(void)
unsigned long long this_tick = os_nsecs();
int one_tick = UM_NSEC_PER_SEC / UM_HZ;
+ /* Protection against the host's time going backwards */
+ if ((last_tick != 0) && (this_tick < last_tick))
+ this_tick = last_tick;
+
if (last_tick == 0)
last_tick = this_tick - one_tick;
@@ -148,6 +152,9 @@ static int after_sleep_interval(struct timespec *ts)
start_usecs = usec;
start_usecs -= skew / UM_NSEC_PER_USEC;
+ if (start_usecs < 0)
+ start_usecs = 0;
+
tv = ((struct timeval) { .tv_sec = start_usecs / UM_USEC_PER_SEC,
.tv_usec = start_usecs % UM_USEC_PER_SEC });
interval = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, usec }, tv });
--
1.5.5.1
This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
Subject: uml: deal with host time going backwards
to the 2.6.25-stable tree. Its filename is
uml-deal-with-host-time-going-backwards.patch
A git repo of this tree can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>From [email protected] Tue Aug 5 13:14:23 2008
From: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:14:06 -0400
Subject: uml: deal with host time going backwards
To: [email protected]
Cc: LKML <[email protected]>, uml-devel <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Disposition: inline
From: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
commit 06e1e4ffbd1932e288839b3140cda6b8141eb684 upstream
Protection against the host's time going backwards (eg, ntp activity on
the host) by keeping track of the time at the last tick and if it's
greater than the current time, keep time stopped until the host catches
up.
Cc: Nix <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/um/os-Linux/time.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ static void deliver_alarm(void)
unsigned long long this_tick = os_nsecs();
int one_tick = UM_NSEC_PER_SEC / UM_HZ;
+ /* Protection against the host's time going backwards */
+ if ((last_tick != 0) && (this_tick < last_tick))
+ this_tick = last_tick;
+
if (last_tick == 0)
last_tick = this_tick - one_tick;
@@ -148,6 +152,9 @@ static int after_sleep_interval(struct t
start_usecs = usec;
start_usecs -= skew / UM_NSEC_PER_USEC;
+ if (start_usecs < 0)
+ start_usecs = 0;
+
tv = ((struct timeval) { .tv_sec = start_usecs / UM_USEC_PER_SEC,
.tv_usec = start_usecs % UM_USEC_PER_SEC });
interval = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, usec }, tv });
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.25/uml-fix-build-when-slob-is-enabled.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-fix-bad-ntp-interaction-with-clock.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-physical-memory-shouldn-t-include-initial-stack.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-track-and-make-up-lost-ticks.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-missed-kmalloc-in-pcap_user.c.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-deal-with-host-time-going-backwards.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-deal-with-inaccessible-address-space-start.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-missing-export-of-csum_partial-on-uml-amd64.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-memcpy-export-needs-to-follow-host-declaration.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-stub-needs-to-tolerate-sigwinch.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-work-around-broken-host-ptrace_sysemu.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-fix-gcc-ices-and-unresolved-externs.patch
queue-2.6.25/uml-fix-boot-crash.patch