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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] UML - Deal with host time going backwards
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On Tuesday 03 June 2008 03:32:11 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:02:35 -0400
>
> Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> wrote:
> > Protection against the host's time going backwards - keep 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.
>
> Strange. What would cause the host's time (or at least UML's perception
> of it) to go backwards?

A wild guess would be that the UML process is running "fast" at some point and
its expectation of the host's time is skewed forward because of that.

Another possibility is that the hosts clock got reset between the times UML
has checked it and the correction was a negative one.

DRH

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