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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:34:24 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139870065.5237.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87irrj85vp.fsf@hardknott.home.whinlatter.ukfsn.org>


> > Can you strace vs. ltrace and see if the gettimeofday or clock_gettime
> > syscalls are ever called ?
> 
>            | strace        | ltrace
> -----------+---------------+------------------------------------
> 2.6.15     |               |
> date       | clock_gettime | clock_gettime -> SYS_clock_gettime,
>            |               |   localtime, strftime
> touch      | utimes        | futimes -> SYS_utimes
>            |               |
> 2.6.16-rc2 |               |
> date       | clock_gettime | clock_gettime -> SYS_clock_gettime,
>            |               |   localtime, strftime
> touch      | utimes        | futimes -> SYS_utimes
> 
> [clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1139826613, 157402000}) = 0]
> 
> > I wonder if you have a glibc new enough to
> > use the vDSO to obtain the time or if it's using the syscall... The vDSO
> > on ppc32 is very new.
> 
> It's glibc 2.3.5 (Debian libc6 2.3.5-13).

Ok, does not using NTP fixes it ?

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-13 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-12 17:13 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew Roger Leigh
2006-02-12 17:39 ` Gabriel Paubert
2006-02-12 17:58 ` Roger Leigh
2006-02-12 20:15   ` Bin Zhang
2006-02-12 19:55 ` Olaf Hering
2006-02-13 10:57   ` Olaf Hering
2006-02-13 12:51     ` Olaf Hering
2006-02-12 21:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-02-13 18:34   ` Roger Leigh
2006-02-13 22:34     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-02-15  5:27       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-02-15 10:30         ` Olaf Hering
2006-02-15 11:53         ` Mikael Pettersson
2006-02-16 11:30         ` Roger Leigh
2006-02-13  0:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-13  0:41   ` Roger Leigh
2006-02-13  4:00   ` [PATCH] powerpc: dont allow old RTC to be selected Anton Blanchard

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