From: Jeff Dike Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 05:46:10 +0000 (-0700) Subject: uml: deal with host time going backwards X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=06e1e4ffbd1932e288839b3140cda6b8141eb684;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git uml: deal with host time going backwards 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 Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c index bee98f466d66..dec5678fc17f 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 });