Re: [Bug #12667] Badness at kernel/time/timekeeping.c:98 in pmud(timekeeping_suspended)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:00 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 21:27 +1300, Paul Collins wrote:
> > > > Just for laughs I slapped together the following, which seems to do
> > > the
> > > > job, although not especially tidily.
> > > 
> > > And it doesn't even do the job.  Judging by this new trace, submitting
> > > input events from the via-pmu resume function is still too early.
> > > 
> > What's up Thomas ? We can't call gettimeofday() from a sysdev
> > suspend/resume ? That's a little bit too harsh no ?
> 
> Perhaps the ordering is wrong (ie. via-pmu resume happens bevore timekeeping
> resume)?

In this case, maybe gtod should just return the frozen time (ie, last
time at the time of suspend) rather than WARN ?

Ben.


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