Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtc: Avoid accumulating time drift in suspend/resume

[John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>]

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 17:54 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:07 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:
> > +       /*
> > +        * Since these RTC suspend/resume handlers are not called
> > +        * at the very end of suspend or the start of resume,
> > +        * some run-time may pass on either sides of the sleep time
> > +        * so subtract kernel run-time between rtc_suspend to rtc_resume
> > +        * to keep things accurate.
> > +        */
> > +       sleep_time = timespec_sub(sleep_time,
> > +                       timespec_sub(new_system, old_system));
> 
> What happens if sleep_time is negative? I think this need to be
> clamped to 0 to avoid backwards jumps when you wake up more than once
> without the rtc advancing.

Good thought! Although that will be easier to catch in
timekeeping_inject_sleeptime(), so I might add it there.

Thanks for the review!
-john