Re: [PATCH] rt-tests: hackbench: fix for uninitialized start time

[Clark Williams]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:47:19 +0200
Ciprian Barbu <ciprian.barbu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> While playing around with hackbench I discovered that I would sometimes 
> get an enormous time reported, even if the run time would be less than a 
> second or so. The problem was that the struct timeval start was not 
> initialized until after all children have been created. But if the 
> program receives a signal before this is done, the start time is left 
> uninitialized.
> 
> I propose that in such situations an error message be displayed, like 
> the following patch does.
> 
> Please let me know if this is acceptable.
> 
> Regards,
> /Ciprian

Looks good to me. I've pulled it in for the next release.

Clark

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