Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:42:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
cc: Jerome Borsboom <j.borsboom@erasmusmc.nl>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, george@mvista.com
Subject: Re: process start time set wrongly at boot for kernel 2.6.9
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, john stultz wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 11:21, Jerome Borsboom wrote:
> > Starting with kernel 2.6.9 the process start time is set wrongly for 
> > processes that get started early in the boot process. Below is a dump from 
> > my 'ps' command. Note the start time for processes 1-12. After process 12 
> > the start time is set right.
> 
> How reproducible is this? Are the correct and incorrect time values
> always off by the same amount? 
> 
> Are you running NTP? I'm curious if you are changing your system time
> during boot. 

I'd bet that some process early in the boot adjusts your system time.
Then this is expected behavior. This is why I would have preferred the 
simple back-out patch for the boot times problem.

I'm sorry I fell of the net for so long and didn't stand up for the 
simpler change in this case. Oh well.

I'll probably supply a back-out patch for -mm then, after wading through
my multi-megabyte email backlog (sorry John, still need to read your time
keeping proposal and all its discussion).

Tim
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