Re: Screwy clock after apm suspend

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > If I do cli(); sleep(5 hours); sti();, system should survive that. If
> > you do cli(); sleep(5 hours); sti() but fail to compensate for lost
> > ticks, all sorts of funny things might happen if you are comunicating
> > with someone who did not sleep.
> 
> Then shouldn't it be fixed to compensate?
> 
> By including suspend time in jiffies, there becomes absolutely no
> way for a kernel or userspace thread to measure actual usable system
> time. At least if suspend time is not counted, they can use jiffies
> or xtime depending on what they want to do. Making them one and the
> same gives them no choice.

I do not think anyone should know about "actual usable system
time". If you do cli(); sleep(5hours); sti(), you include that in
jiffies, too. I do not see why swsusp should be handled differently.

								Pavel
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