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From: Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com>
To: kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] posix-cpu-timers: fix wrong timer initialization
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:34:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367328894.8833.49.camel@Wailaba2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367291838-5490-7-git-send-email-kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>

On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 23:17 -0400, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com wrote:
> From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> 
> Currently glibc's rt/tst-cputimer1 testcase is spradically fail because
> a timer created by timer_create() may fire earlier than it's specified.
> 
> posix_cpu_timer_set() uses "val" as current time for three purpose. 1)
> initialize sig->cputimer. 2) calculation "old" val. 3) calculations an
> expires time.
> 
> (1) and (2) should be used only committed time (i.e. without delta_exec)
> because run_posix_cpu_timers() don't care of delta_exec and we need
> consistency. But (3) need exact current time (aka cpu clock time) beucase
> an expires should be "now + timeout" by definition.
> 
> This patch makes separete two kind of "now".
> 
Kosaki,

I must admit that this solution is simpler to what I originally
proposed.

good work!
Olivier




  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-30 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-30  3:17 [PATCH v3 0/7] posix-cpu-timers fixlet kosaki.motohiro
2013-04-30  3:17 ` [PATCH 01/10] events: Protect access via task_subsys_state_check() kosaki.motohiro
2013-04-30  3:17 ` [PATCH 02/10] vm: add no-mmu vm_iomap_memory() stub kosaki.motohiro
2013-04-30  3:17 ` [PATCH 03/10] ARM: OMAP4: hwmod data: make 'ocp2scp_usb_phy_phy_48m" as the main clock kosaki.motohiro
2013-04-30  3:17 ` [PATCH 04/10] posix-cpu-timers: don't account cpu timer after stopped thread runtime accounting kosaki.motohiro
2013-04-30  3:38   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-30  3:17 ` [PATCH 05/10] posix-cpu-timers: fix acounting delta_exec twice kosaki.motohiro
2013-04-30  3:17 ` [PATCH 06/10] posix-cpu-timers: fix wrong timer initialization kosaki.motohiro
2013-04-30 13:34   ` Olivier Langlois [this message]
2013-04-30  3:17 ` [PATCH 07/10] posix-cpu-timers: timer functions must use timer time instead of clock time kosaki.motohiro
2013-04-30  3:17 ` [PATCH 08/10] posix-cpu-timers: check_thread_timers() uses task_sched_runtime() kosaki.motohiro
2013-04-30  3:17 ` [PATCH 09/10] sched: task_sched_runtime introduce micro optimization kosaki.motohiro
2013-05-01 11:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-01 11:50     ` Paul Turner
2013-05-01 18:55       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-05-01 18:42     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-30  3:17 ` [PATCH 10/10] posix-cpu-timers: cleanup cpu_{clock,timer}_sample{,_group} kosaki.motohiro
2013-05-01 11:01 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] posix-cpu-timers fixlet Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-01 18:45   ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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