From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Gerald Britton <gbritton@doomcom.org>
Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@xiph.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Wingo <wingo@fluendo.com>
Subject: Re: gettimeofday() jumping into the future
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:07:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CDE914.1030400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070823113648.GA5405@zante.sekrit.org>
Gerald Britton wrote:
> I have seen this as well (on a 2.6.20.4 kernel). The value returned was
> always identical each time the glitch occured (just a little over 4398
> seconds).
I would guess an off by 2^32 error is at play.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-23 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-23 11:08 gettimeofday() jumping into the future Michael Smith
2007-08-23 11:36 ` Gerald Britton
2007-08-23 13:03 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-23 20:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-23 20:07 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-08-23 11:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-23 12:20 ` Michael Smith
2007-08-23 18:47 ` john stultz
2007-08-25 16:44 ` Michael Smith
2008-03-30 21:17 ` Tim Ricketts
2008-03-31 7:18 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-03 11:47 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2008-04-03 12:22 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2008-04-03 12:44 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2008-04-11 23:11 ` john stultz
2008-03-31 8:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-31 16:03 ` John Stultz
2008-04-02 11:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-02 23:57 ` Karsten Wiese
2008-04-03 6:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-02 4:26 ` Mihai Donțu
2008-04-02 4:27 ` Mihai Donțu
[not found] <47F3F313.7030803@vmware.com>
2008-04-02 22:40 ` Tim Mann
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