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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: Fix some bugs that allowed accumulating time drift in suspend/resume
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:49:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322016578.6445.99.camel@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322015091-23560-1-git-send-email-arve@android.com>

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 18:24 -0800, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> The current code checks if abs(delta_delta.tv_sec) is greater or
> equal to two before it discards the old delta value, but this can
> trigger at close to -1 seconds since -1.000000001 seconds is stored
> as tv_sec -2 and tv_nsec 999999999 in a normalized timespec.
> 
> rtc_resume had an early return check if the rtc value had not changed
> since rtc_suspend. This effectivly stops time for the duration of the
> short sleep. Check if sleep_time is positive after all the adjustments
> have been applied instead since this allows the old_system adjustment
> in rtc_suspend to have an effect even for short sleep cycles.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>

Looks good to me! Thanks for fixing and sending this in!
I'll queue it for upstream.

thanks
-john


      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-23  2:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-23  2:24 [PATCH] rtc: Fix some bugs that allowed accumulating time drift in suspend/resume Arve Hjønnevåg
2011-11-23  2:49 ` John Stultz [this message]

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