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authorJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>2008-06-05 22:46:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-06-06 11:29:10 -0700
commit06e1e4ffbd1932e288839b3140cda6b8141eb684 (patch)
treec76ad0854f28a0600885301e25e8e7197e4e924c
parent34397892a3d677d857fdaf8dec66a66b07dde0b5 (diff)
uml: deal with host time going backwards
Protection against the host's time going backwards (eg, ntp activity on the host) by keeping 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. Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/um/os-Linux/time.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
index bee98f466d6..dec5678fc17 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ static void deliver_alarm(void)
unsigned long long this_tick = os_nsecs();
int one_tick = UM_NSEC_PER_SEC / UM_HZ;
+ /* Protection against the host's time going backwards */
+ if ((last_tick != 0) && (this_tick < last_tick))
+ this_tick = last_tick;
+
if (last_tick == 0)
last_tick = this_tick - one_tick;
@@ -148,6 +152,9 @@ static int after_sleep_interval(struct timespec *ts)
start_usecs = usec;
start_usecs -= skew / UM_NSEC_PER_USEC;
+ if (start_usecs < 0)
+ start_usecs = 0;
+
tv = ((struct timeval) { .tv_sec = start_usecs / UM_USEC_PER_SEC,
.tv_usec = start_usecs % UM_USEC_PER_SEC });
interval = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, usec }, tv });