Re: Introduce clock precision to help time travelers was Re: Extreme time jitter with suspend/resume cycles

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 18/10/2017 at 23:56:38 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Some RTCs will tell you when they lost time/time accuracy and this
> > should be properly reported by the driver. If not, this has to be
> > implemented.
> 
> How is it reported to the userspace?
> 

Userspace will get -EINVAL when using the RTC_RD_TIME ioctl. The kernel
also get the same error when reading the time from the RTC.

> > For anything else, it is probably the job of userspace to try to be
> > clever.
> 
> Userspace would be fine with me, but as far as I can tell, there's no
> good way to do it in userspace.
> 
> My proposal would be: kernel keeps accuracy for timeofday.
> 
> If RTC says time is bad, accuracy is set to ~0.
> 
> settimeofday sets accuracy to 0 (completely accurate).
> 
> new_settimeofday gets new argument, accuracy.
> 
> new_gettimofday returns accuracy, too.
> 
> Does that sound sane? I'm not sure what other interfaces need to be extended.
> 
> Best regards,
> 									Pavel
> 
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