Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] timekeeping: Fix CLOCK_TAI timer/nanosleepdelays

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Dec 12 2013 - 08:25:29 EST



* John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A think-o in the calculation of the monotonic -> tai time offset
> results in CLOCK_TAI timers and nanosleeps to expire late (the
> latency is ~2x the tai offset).
>
> Fix this by adding the tai offset from the realtime offset instead
> of subtracting.

Hm, it looks like the whole CLOCK_TAI feature was rushed in, with not
enough testing done.

If the bugs extend to more than this two-liner then for -stable it
might be better to just disable CLOCK_TAI (userspace can deal with it
just fine), and queue up the right fixes for the next merge window or
so.

Thanks,

Ingo
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