Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 14:41:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 14:41:39 -0500 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([195.39.74.230]:28619 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 14:41:36 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 20:48:11 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Pavel Machek Cc: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , "J.E.J. Bottomley" , john stultz , lkml Subject: Re: Voyager subarchitecture for 2.5.46 Message-ID: <20021110204811.B15515@ucw.cz> References: <20021110191822.GA1237@elf.ucw.cz> <20021110194204.GF3068@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021110194204.GF3068@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>; from pavel@suse.cz on Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 08:42:04PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1358 Lines: 32 On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 08:42:04PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > I believe you need to *store* last value given to userland. > > > > But that's trivially done: it doesn't even have to be thread-specific, so > > it can be just a global entry anywhere in the process data > > structures. > > > This is just a random sanity check thing, after all. It doesn't have to be > > system-global or even per-cpu. The only really important thing is that > > "gettimeofday()" should return monotonically increasing data - and if it > > doesn't, the vsyscall would have to ask why (sometimes it's fine, if > > somebody did a settimeofday, but usually it's a sign of trouble). > > I believe you need it system-global. If task A tells task B "its > 10:30:00" and than task B does gettimeofday and gets "10:29:59", it > will be confused for sure. You just need to make sure the time difference is less than the speed of light in the system times the distance between the two tasks. ;) Really, relativity, and the limited speed of travel of information kicks in and saves us here. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/