From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
akpm@linuxfoundation.org, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 1/6] UML - Deal with host time going backwards
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:52:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wxmfg99.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806031543.56864.dhazelton@enter.net> (Daniel Hazelton's message of "Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:43:56 -0400")
On 3 Jun 2008, Daniel Hazelton said:
> On Tuesday 03 June 2008 03:32:11 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:02:35 -0400
>>
>> Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> wrote:
>> > Protection against the host's time going backwards - keep 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.
>>
>> Strange. What would cause the host's time (or at least UML's perception
>> of it) to go backwards?
>
> A wild guess would be that the UML process is running "fast" at some point and
> its expectation of the host's time is skewed forward because of that.
Quite so. Simply running ntp on the host (in slew-only mode, no less!)
can cause this.
> Another possibility is that the hosts clock got reset between the times UML
> has checked it and the correction was a negative one.
That too.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 19:02 [uml-devel] [PATCH 1/6] UML - Deal with host time going backwards Jeff Dike
2008-06-03 19:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-03 19:43 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-06-03 19:52 ` Nix [this message]
2008-06-03 20:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-03 20:37 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-06-03 21:00 ` Jeff Dike
2008-06-04 1:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-06-04 3:15 ` Jeff Dike
2008-06-04 5:12 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-06-04 14:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-04 19:37 ` Jeff Dike
2008-06-04 20:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-05 15:30 ` Jeff Dike
2008-06-05 18:14 ` Nix
2008-06-05 19:47 ` Jeff Dike
2008-06-05 21:41 ` Nix
2008-06-05 18:19 ` Nix
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2008-06-03 19:59 devzero
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