Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Voyager subarchitecture for 2.5.46 | From | Sean Neakums <> | Date | Sun, 10 Nov 2002 20:02:00 +0000 |
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commence Pavel Machek quotation:
>> This is just a random sanity check thing, after all. It doesn't have to be >> system-global or even per-cpu. The only really important thing is that >> "gettimeofday()" should return monotonically increasing data - and if it ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> doesn't, the vsyscall would have to ask why (sometimes it's fine, if >> somebody did a settimeofday, but usually it's a sign of trouble). > > I believe you need it system-global. If task A tells task B "its > 10:30:00" and than task B does gettimeofday and gets "10:29:59", it > will be confused for sure.
Hence the requirement that it be monotonically increasing.
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