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From: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rt-tests: hackbench: fix for uninitialized start time
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:14:22 -0600
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:47:19 +0200
Ciprian Barbu <ciprian.barbu@linaro.org> wrote:

> Hello,
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> While playing around with hackbench I discovered that I would sometimes=20
> get an enormous time reported, even if the run time would be less than a=
=20
> second or so. The problem was that the struct timeval start was not=20
> initialized until after all children have been created. But if the=20
> program receives a signal before this is done, the start time is left=20
> uninitialized.
>=20
> I propose that in such situations an error message be displayed, like=20
> the following patch does.
>=20
> Please let me know if this is acceptable.
>=20
> Regards,
> /Ciprian

Looks good to me. I've pulled it in for the next release.

Clark

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